This article analyzes, empirically, the link between public procurement and innovation activities by taking into … applications for 24 countries over the period 1995-2012, we test the impact of public procurement on innovation activities and … patenting is positively affected by the public procurement while a high degree of import penetration reduces the innovation …

This study provides the first quantification of buyers' role in the outcome of R&D procurement contracts. We combine … managers' death events negatively affect innovation outcomes: a 1% increase in the share of relevant public officer deaths …