Estonia

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

Chapter Chapter 7 in Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy, 2014, pp 127-149 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Estonian innovation policy has been developing rapidly since the mid-2000s, but supply-side measures dominate, and systemic public procurement of innovation exists only in some unimplemented policy documents—a situation dominated by noninterventionist neo-liberal values and inertia in the politico-administrative systems, described as a “no policy” policy. Nevertheless, public procurement has been successfully applied in the ICT domain and has achieved moderate success in defence. In order to support modernisation of the private sector, a more generic policy targeting innovation in public procurements has gained interest. Several important challenges remain, including changing the dominant culture of the public-procurement community, which avoids risk-taking and exhibits weak administrative capacities. We propose applying public procurement of innovation to selected sectors. The Estonian case study offers an unique opportunity to understand the potential of and possible barriers to encouraging more comprehensive public procurement of innovation policies within a liberal catching-up context.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; World Trade Organization; Innovation Policy; Public Procurement; Policy Domain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40258-6_7

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