Sweden

Max Rolfstam and Robert Ågren
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Robert Ågren: Lund University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy, 2014, pp 213-232 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Sweden is often thought of as a country with a strong tradition for using public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation. Early on, Sweden recognized and developed procedures for using public procurement as a technology-development tool. After a period where emphasis was put on this aspect of public procurement Sweden dropped many policy initiatives within this field. This was in part due to neo-liberal movements during the 1980s which in interaction with a distributed institutional setup led to the removal of incentives for a procuring authority to engage in public procurement of innovation. Another contributing cause was poor policy guidance from the academia upon Sweden’s accession into the EU, which spread apprehension among procuring authorities. It is not until the last few years that Sweden has started to reengage in public procurement for innovation policy, by using predominantly government authorities to engage in public procurement for innovation, and by issuing guidance on the topic.

Keywords: Public Authority; Innovation Policy; Public Procurement; Technology Procurement; Procurement Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40258-6_11

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