and innovation …

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 …

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 … to investigate whether this reform stimulated innovation in the business sector. Across a wide set of specifications …