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Green public procurement has gained high political priority and is argued to be an effective demand-side policy to trigger environmental innovations. Its implementation usually takes the form of environmental award selection criteria in public procurement tenders. However, there is no direct or...
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The use of public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently. Germany implemented a legal change in its procurement framework in 2009, which allowed government agencies to specify innovative aspects of procured products as selection criteria...
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This paper provides a new theoretical rationale for public procurement for innovation (PPI), a unique policy encouraging public procurers to purchase innovative products. In contrast to existing studies that primarily emphasize the advantages of PPI, this paper takes a comprehensive approach,...
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Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy. However, the detrimental effects of non-innovative public procurement - public procurement tenders awarded solely based on their price - on firm innovations have been largely...
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This paper investigates the impact of Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) and Research and Development (R&D) grants on firms' R&D investment using data from Belgian R&D-active firms over the past decade. Our empirical analysis robustly reveals a non-negligible crowding-out effect between the...
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In den letzten Jahren hat die Diskussion über die Effekte öffentlicher Nachfrage als Motor für Innovationstätigkeit und … Wirtschaftswachstum in Deutschland und international eine neue Dynamik entfaltet. Helge Dauchert, Dietmar Harhoff und Patrick Llerena … Deutschland im Jahr 2008 auf etwa 13% des BIP belief. Generell sehen die Autoren durchaus Potenzial für eine stärkere …
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In den letzten Jahren hat die Diskussion über die Effekte öffentlicher Nachfrage als Motor für Innovationstätigkeit und … Wirtschaftswachstum in Deutschland und international eine neue Dynamik entfaltet. Helge Dauchert, Dietmar Harhoff und Patrick Llerena … Deutschland im Jahr 2008 auf etwa 13% des BIP belief. Generell sehen die Autoren durchaus Potenzial für eine stärkere …
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Public procurement is the central sourcing mechanism evoked to directly secure the delivery of public services. It may however also be used to achieve certain social outcomes and secondary effects. This paper attempts to contribute with knowledge regarding a particular secondary effect, the role...
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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...
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The paper provides an overview of the development of public procurement (PP) rules in the EU and in selected international organisations. The EU rules were originally designed to foster competition and efficiency, and the dominant award criterion was the price. Over time, and in particular in...
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