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Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy

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The recent decade has witnessed a growing interest in using public procurement to
spur innovation and development. An increasing number of governments are
claiming that public procurement—often worth of 10–30 % of a country’s GDP as
exemplified by European Union member countries (EC 2011b)—should be used
more extensively and explicitly to promote innovation, technology, and economic
development.
Indeed, diverse countries from Asia to North America and from Europe to South
America have started to develop new and explicit policies that place public procurement
into service for innovation and development (see country chapters in this
volume but also Edler and Georghiou 2007; European Commission 2008, 2009,
2010, 2011a; OECD 2009a, b, 2011a). Such initiatives include the European
Commission’s (EC) Lead Market Initiative (EC 2011c, 2012a) and pre-commercial
public procurement-related activities (EC 2012b); numerous new initiatives in the
EU member countries (Edler and Izsak 2011); the New Directions for Innovation,
Competitiveness and Productivity program in Australia with a highlighted role for
public procurement (OECD 2011a); the Indigenous Innovation Policy initiative in
China (Edler et al. 2007); and industrial policy initiatives using public procurement
in Brazil (Prochnik 2010). These are only a few examples of recent policy initiatives
that are based on the idea of public procurement of innovation. The issue has
also been picked up by international organisations, which suggest that developed as
well as developing countries ought to introduce their own public procurement of
innovation policies as part of a demand-side innovation policy mix. For example,
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) believes

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: ., 2014

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1-311

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English

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978-3-642-40258-6

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