Edited by Charles Edquist, Leif Hommen, Lena Tsipouri

Public Technology Procurement and Innovation: Volume 16

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Издательство: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 г.
0-7923-8685-X
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Объем: 342 стр.

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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