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Buyers' workload and R&D procurement outcomes : evidence from the US Air Force Research Lab
Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2021
Does workload constitute a bottleneck to a public agency’s mission, and if so, to what extent? We ask these questions … identity of the officer responsible for the procurement process to estimate how workload in the federal acquisition unit … officers, which we use to instrument workload. We find a large increase in patenting at the extensive margin when the same …
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Bureaucratic Frictions and Innovation Procurement
Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2023
Is work overload a friction to public agencies? Using data on R&D procurements, patents, and contracting units from a … US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement … shifts provide an exogenous source of variation that we exploit as an instrument for workload. When workload declines, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469869
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Bureaucratic frictions and innovation procurement
Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2023
Is work overload a friction to public agencies? Using data on R&D procurements, patents, and contracting units from a … US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement … shifts provide an exogenous source of variation that we exploit as an instrument for workload. When workload declines, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431269
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Public procurement as an innovation policy : where do we stand?
Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023
Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To what extent has this potential been realized so far? What can be done to improve the performance of PPI in this regard? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499115
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Public procurement as an innovation policy: Where do we stand?
Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023
Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To what extent has this potential been realized so far? What can be done to improve the performance of PPI in this regard? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502149
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Public procurement can hinder innovation
Krieger, Bastian; Pruefer, Malte; Strecke, Linus - 2024
Public procurement accounts for 15 to 20 percent of global GDP and is considered an effective innovation policy. However, the detrimental effects of non-innovative public procurement - public procurement tenders awarded solely based on their price - on firm innovations have been largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502593
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Government spending composition in a simple model of Schumpeterian growth
Wiederhold, Simon - 2009
This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation-based economic growth. We construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from the public sphere can effectively alter the economy's rate of technological change. We incorporate results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924192
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The impact of government procurement composition on private R&D activities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - 2011
This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271362
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Industrial Development and Innovation : Some Lessons from Vaccine Procurement
Srinivas, Smita - 2014
This paper suggests that demand instruments of international vaccine procurement, instead of being seen primarily as a global management instrument, can usefully induce industrial change and technological innovation through improved technical standards and regulations. The example of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219913
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Buyers' Role in Innovation Procurement : Evidence from U.S. Military R&D Contracts
Decarolis, Francesco; de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; … - 2023
causes a decline of 32.3% of patents per contract, 20.5% patent citations per contract, and 34.3% patent claims per contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256206