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 …

the Innovation Sector Funds, managed by the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI). The main objective of … United States of America's systems of support to the research and innovation. The study identified 1,893 research projects in …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from … in the level of inter-sectoral technology flows. In this context, technological platforms – defined as knowledge and …

The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … support programs. The geographical proximity of firms operating in the same industry or field of technology is expected to … facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …

This study investigates the impacts of Chinese high-tech enterprise certification policy on enterprise innovation by … certification can promote Chinese enterprise innovation, especially the innovation captured by invention patents. The results of a … certification can influence enterprise innovation through tangible and intangible channels. The heterogeneity analysis shows that …

Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between … different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of … collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing together science and industry. Building on a large data set using project …