Public Technology Procurement and Innovation: 16 (Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, 16) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079238685X ISBN 13: 9780792386858

Publisher: Springer, 1999

Synopsis

Public Technology Procurement and Innovation studies public technology procurement as an instrument of innovation policy. In the past few years, public technology procurement has been a relatively neglected topic in the theoretical and research literature on the economics of innovation. Similarly, preoccupation with `supply-side' measures has led policy-makers to avoid making very extensive use of this important `demand-side' instrument. These trends have been especially pronounced in the European Union. There, as this book will argue, existing legislation governing public procurement presents obstacles to the use of public technology procurement as a means of stimulating and supporting technological innovation. Recently, however, there has been a gradual re-awakening of practical interest in such measures among policy-makers in the EU and elsewhere. For these and other related measures, this volume aims to contribute to a serious reconsideration of public technology procurement from the complementary standpoints of innovation theory and innovation policy.

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Synopsis

This is a study of public technology procurement as an instrument of innovation policy. Public technology procurement has been a relatively neglected topic in the theoretical and research literature on the economics of innovation. Similarly, preoccupation with "supply-side" measures has led policy-makers to avoid making very extensive use of this important "demand-side" instrument. These trends have been especially pronounced in the European Union. There, existing legislation governing public procurement presents obstacles to the use of public technology procurement as a means of stimulating and supporting technological innovation. However, there has been a gradual re-awakening of practical interest in such measures among policy-makers in the EU and elsewhere. For these and other related measures, this volume aims to contribute to a serious reconsideration of public technology procurement from the complementary standpoints of innovation theory and innovation policy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079238685X
• ISBN 13: 9780792386858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Edquist Charles, Hommen Leif, Tsipouri Lena