How Governments Support Innovation Through Public Procurement: Comparing Evidence from 11 Countries

Veiko Lember (), Rainer Kattel () and Tarmo Kalvet
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Veiko Lember: Tallinn University of Technology
Tarmo Kalvet: Tallinn University of Technology

Chapter Chapter 14 in Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy, 2014, pp 287-309 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This final chapter summarizes the main findings from the 11 country chapters presented in the book. We categorize the current public procurement of innovation (PPI) policy practices and explore the factors behind policy developments. Although countries have followed rather different paths in PPI policy-making, we detect a certain general PPI trajectory over the past three decades—while during the industrial policy era up until the 1980s public procurement was mostly used to induce new technologies and entire industries via direct public technology procurement programs as well as R&D procurement, the emerging policy consensus puts an emphasis on more holistic ideas and sees public procurement as a more generic tool in promoting innovation. We conclude, however, that today there is no single dominant policy approach governments follow and that the actual PPI policy measures implemented are still cautious and indirect rather than substantial and direct, and that the very process of public procurement plays a far more modest role in the actual implementation of PPI policies than expected.

Keywords: Innovation Policy; Public Procurement; National Innovation System; Procurement Policy; Liberal Market Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40258-6_14

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