&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and … analysis. The empirical part uses data from the Mannheim Innovationpanel on innovation activities of German firms. …

, and experimental work. All studies deal with the innovation effects of public procurement, that is, the purchase by … governments of goods and services. The idea that public procurement can stimulate innovation originates from the seminal work of … Joseph Schumpeter and Jacob Schmookler, which suggests that innovation is sensible to general demand conditions. However …