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Prizes Versus Contracts as Incentives for Innovation

Che, Yeon-Koo - 2015

The procurement of an innovation involves motivating a research effort to generate a new idea and then implementing that idea efficiently. If research efforts are unverifiable and implementation costs are private information, a trade-off arises between the two objectives. The optimal mechanism...

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Strategic management in public procurement : the role of dynamic capabilities in equity and efficiency

Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Heaton, Sohvi - 2023

A key issue in strategic management in the public sector is how government creates economic and social value through procurement. Unfortunately, most procurement studies are based on contract theories, which fail to incorporate the growing role of strategic management in performance. We fill...

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A Case Study in Comparative Procurement Law : Assessing Uncitral's Lessons for U.S. Procurement

Yukins, Christopher R. - 2006

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has commissioned a working group, with delegations from many industrialized and developing nations, to reform and update the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services. The working group is currently...

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Digital Technologies, Public Procurement and Sustainability : Some Exploratory Thoughts

Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2019

In this short paper, I reflect on the way in which digitalisation can foster more sustainable procurement in the EU context. I stress the sine qua non importance of building an enabling data architecture and point at areas for further research

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Does Green Public Procurement Trigger Environmental Innovations?

Krieger, Bastian; Zipperer, Vera - 2021

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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Does Dual-Sourcing Lower Procurement Costs?

Lyon, Thomas P. - 2003

I study the determinants of dual sourcing and its effects on government procurement costs using a panel dataset of tactical missiles. American defense policy encourages the use of dual sourcing to reduce government procurement costs. Recent theoretical work is skeptical of this policy, but has...

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On the Competition and Transparency in Public Procurement During COVID-19 Pandemic in European Union

Kubak, Matus; Nemec, Peter; Vološin, Marcel - 2021

Public procurement accounts in developed countries for about 20% of gross domestic product, thus is seen as a policy implementation tool. During COVD-19 outbreak, public procurement served as a basic tool for equipping institutions and citizens with medical supplies, ventilators, and personal...

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The Role of Public Procurement in Innovation: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Wiederhold, Simon - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

This volume was prepared by Simon Wiederhold during his stay at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and at the Duke University in Durham, U.S. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Jena in August 2011. The thesis...

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Nachfrageorientierte Innovationspolitik: Bestandsaufnahme und ökonomische Bewertung

Falck, Oliver; Wiederhold, Simon - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

in den vergangenen Jahren gerade die Diskussion über nachfrageorientierte Innovationspolitik (Regulierung, Förderung der … privaten Nachfrage nach innovativen Gütern und Dienstleistungen und öffentliche Beschaffung von Innovationen) an Dynamik … gewonnen. <br>Die Studie „Nachfrageorientierte Innovationspolitik: Bestandsaufnahme und ökonomische Bewertung“ beginnt mit …

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Does the Technological Content of Government Demand Matter for Private R&D? Evidence from US States

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014

Governments purchase everything from airplanes to zucchini. This paper investigates the role of the technological content of government procurement in innovation. We theoretically show that a shift in the composition of public purchases toward high-tech products translates into higher...

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