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Procuring Survival
Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; … - 2022
We investigate the impact of public procurement spending on business survival. Using Italy as a laboratory, we construct a large-scale dataset on firms–covering balance-sheet, income-statement, and administrative records–and match it with public contract data. Employing a regression...
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Government spending composition in a simple model of Schumpeterian growth
Wiederhold, Simon - 2009
This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We … incentive for private innovation activities. In contrast to the standard Schumpeterian growth framework, we account for industry … heterogeneity in terms of innovation potential. This extension allows to bring government demand policy within the realm of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267225
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Innovation on Demand: Can Public Procurement Drive Market Success of Innovations
Aschhoff, Birgit; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2008
Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national … levels (e.g., Aho-Report, Barcelona Strategy). It has a large potential to stimulate innovation since it accounts for 16% of … combined EU-15 GDP. We embed public procurement for innovation into the broader framework of public policies to stimulate …
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Strategic public procurement: An overview
Handler, Heinz - 2015
address not only economic objectives, but also social and environmental goals as well as innovation aspects. As a result, such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410869
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Sustainable innovation through public procurement: The case of 'closed loop' recyled paper
Yeow, Jillian; Uyarra, Elvira; Gee, Sally - 2011
Sustainability has been at the forefront of procurement policy in the UK in recent years, and innovation can be a key … paper by a UK government department. It charts the transformation in procurement from that of a product to an integrated … service, and highlights the procurement of a sustainable innovation to achieve multiple objectives. The study indicates the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277933
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Firms in (Green) Public Procurement: Financial strength indicators' impact on contract awards and its repercussion on financial strength
Baum, Christopher F.; Kordestani, Arash; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2021
We examine whether the financial strength of companies, in particular, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is causally linked to the award of a public procurement contract (PP), especially in the environmentally friendly 'green' area (GPP). For this purpose, we build a combined procurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745506
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Public procurement as an innovation policy: Where do we stand?
Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502149
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Firms in Green Public Procurement: Financial Strength Indicators' Impact on Contract Awards and Its Repercussion on Financial Strength
Baum, Christopher F.; Kordestani, Arash; Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 90 (2021) 4, pp. 71-92
We examine whether the financial strength of companies, in particular, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is causally linked to the award of a public procurement contract (PP), especially in the environmentally friendly green area (GPP). For this purpose, we build a combined procurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014001302
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Innovation in emerging economies: How do university-industry linkages and public procurement matter for small businesses?
Storz, Cornelia; ten Brink, Tobias; Zou, Na - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 39 (2021) 4, pp. 1439-1480
emerging economies where high uncertainties are a barrier to innovation. We know from previous studies that linkages to …' innovation in China. Based on a sample of 926 small businesses derived from the World Bank Enterprises Survey in China (2012), we … find that university-industry linkages enhance innovation, though only when it comes to minor forms of innovation. In line …
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Public Procurement and Innovation for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2021
we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … with calls for mission-oriented and challenge-led innovation policies. Our paper also contributes to the emerging … literature on public entrepreneurship, given that PPaI for HCAI can advance the transformation of society, but only under …
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