address not only economic objectives, but also social and environmental goals as well as innovation aspects. As a result, such … remains an isolated policy, it will have only limited ramifications on Community-wide sustainability. Strategic PP should … rather complement sustainability policies in their respective areas and should thus become an integral part of overall EU …

Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy …

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 procurement of an innovation involves motivating a research effort to generate a new idea and then implementing … innovation is above a certain threshold, and handicaps the innovator in contract allocation when the value of innovation is below … that threshold. A monetary prize is employed as an additional incentive but only when the value of innovation is …

public procurement tenders. However, there is no direct or broad empirical evidence on its innovation impact. There are even … doubts about its effectiveness as an innovation policy tool, as it does not require innovations as part of its contracts and …

public procurement tenders. However, there is no direct or broad empirical evidence on its innovation impact. There are even … doubts about its effectiveness as an innovation policy tool, as it does not require innovations as part of its contracts and …

' innovation activities. Considering that the public sector is a large buyer in the economy, public procurement is able to work as … analyses whether GPP is able to trigger innovation activities within firms, and if so, whether these innovations are …

The use of public procurement to promote private innovation activities has attracted increasing attention recently … to investigate whether this reform stimulated innovation in the business sector. Across a wide set of specifications …

This paper provides a new theoretical rationale for public procurement for innovation (PPI), a unique policy …