Understanding the Innovation Impacts of Public Procurement

By Elvira Uyarra, Kieron Flanagan. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Public procurement, innovation and industrial policy: Rationales, roles, capabilities and implementation (2020, background): “Actors must be mobilised to align visions and interests across multiple stakeholders and governance levels, articulate demand and signal it effectively to the market (Uyarra and Flanagan, 2010).”
Procurement challenges in the South African public sector (2012, background): “Besides the fiduciary obligation to deliver goods and services to the constituents of the particular government administration, public procurement addresses a wide range of objectives (Uyarra & Flanagan, 2009: 2).”
Procurement for sustainable local economic development (2012, background): “Specifically, scholars have increasingly discussed the role of procurement as an economic development tool and as a driver of innovation (Uyarra and Flannigan, 2010; Elder and Georghiou, 2007; Murray, 2001).”
Policy instruments for public procurement of innovation: Choice, design and assessment (2014, background): “Public procurement accounts for a significant proportion of overall demand for goods and services and is increasingly seen as an attractive and feasible instrument for furthering the goals of innovation policy [1].”
Exploring the normative turn in regional innovation policy: responsibility and the quest for public value (2019, positive): “…procurement has been classed as a demand-side innovation policy instrument for some time, as the significant sums spent by governments through this channel represent significant economic leverage (Dale-Clough, 2015; Uyarra, Flanagan, Magro, & Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, 2017; Uyarra & Flanagan, 2010).”
Public Procurement for Innovation as mission-oriented innovation policy (2012, background): “We will now present a taxonomy of different phenomena that are, or should be, labeled PPI or innovation procurement (Edler, 2009; Edquist et al., 2000a; Hommen and Rolfstam, 2009; Uyarra and Flanagan, 2010).”
Evaluating the demand side: New challenges for evaluation (2012, background): “Hence public procurement is receiving increased attention (Edler and Georghiou 2007; Uyarra and Flanagan 2010).”
Demand-side vs. supply-side technology policies: Hidden treatment and new empirical evidence on the policy mix (2015, background): “Despite the theoretical and policy attention paid to the issue, the empirical evidence about the effect of innovative public procurement on innovation outcome is rather fragmented and mostly limited to case studies (Edquist and Hommen, 2000a; Rolfstam, 2009; Flanagan et al., 2011; Brammer and Walker”
Barriers to innovation through public procurement: A supplier perspective (2014, background): “Procurement can influence these dimensions and thus encourage or hamper innovation in different ways, for instance through aggregating contracts, setting standards, dealing with intellectual property rights, engaging with suppliers to inform specifications, or enabling a level playing field through ”
Sustainable procurement in the public sector: an international comparative study (2011, background): “Prior research Public procurement Public procurement refers to “the acquisition of goods and services by government or public sector organizations” (Uyarra and Flanagan, 2010) and is one of the key economic activities of government (Thai, 2001).”
Public–private innovation: barriers in the case of mobility as a service in West Sweden (2019, background): “Highly regulated and formalized processes are customary for most public actors, and public procurement has often been criticized for driving up costs (e.g. Flyvbjerg, Bruzelius, and Rothengatter 2003) and for hampering innovation (cf. Uyarra and Flanagan 2010).”