This article analyzes, empirically, the link between public procurement and innovation activities by taking into … account the moderating effect played by import penetration on public procurement. Using industry-level information on patent … applications for 24 countries over the period 1995-2012, we test the impact of public procurement on innovation activities and …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least … partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation …

in where environmental law has failed to efficiently provide greater incentives for environmental innovation. A patent … not face efficient incentives for environmental innovation - a market failure that patent rewards can ameliorate. Along …Despite numerous and diverse efforts, environmental law generally fails to promote technological innovation with …

Prizes are receiving increasing attention in policy and entrepreneurial communities as means to promote innovation, but … their distinguishing features remain inadequately understood. Models of patents treat winning a patent as winning a prize …; other models distinguish prizes primarily as public lump-sum (re)purchase of a patent. We examine advantages of prizes based …

Purpose: At the dynamic innovation market, it is very difficult for an enterprise to accomplish innovation individually …; technology innovation is shifting towards collaborative R&D chain mode. Thus, supplier selection based on individually innovation … efficiency of enterprise is inapplicable to construct collaborative R&D innovation chain. This study is seeking to address how to …

Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …