procurement, as a means to stimulate innovation.Design/methodology/approach: By applying a post … procurement of innovation policies. The case study findings suggest that few of the challenges innovating SME's are facing would … be ameliorated by developing public procurement of innovation policies specifically targeting SME promotion. Research …

optimal procurement of innovation are considered. Finally, we sketch enforcement and competition policy issues. … intellectual property right design. We derive conclusions in the simplest, one-time innovation, case then investigate how these …

seen as an attractive and feasible instrument for furthering the goals of innovation policy. However, public procurement is … the nature of innovations and in the range of ways that procurement can impact upon innovation. A one-size-fits-all model … that, rather than trying to co-opt public procurement into the innovation policy toolbox, policy-makers should focus on …