Barriers to innovation through public procurement: A supplier perspective

Uyarra, Elvira; Edler, Jakob; García-Estévez, Javier; Georghiou, Luke; Yeow, Jillian

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2014.04.003

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“…A growing literature has laid out the rationales for using public procurement to promote innovation, assessing its impacts as well as identifying the underlying practices and barriers associated with their effective implementation (Aschhoff and Sofka, 2009;Edler and Georghiou, 2007;Georghiou et al 2014;Edquist et al, 2015;Edquist and Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, 2012;Rolfstam, 2013;Uyarra et al, 2014). However the geographical dimension of these practices is seldom discussed.…”

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Anchoring the innovation impacts of public procurement to place: The role of conversations

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Flanagan²,

Zabala‐Iturriagagoitia

2017

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Public procurement is frequently touted as a means of promoting innovation at the sub-national level, but the underlying mechanisms through which this is supposed to work are seldom articulated. In particular, while the relevance of social interaction for innovation is offered as a key rationale for the use of public procurement for innovation (PPI), there is little discussion of its corresponding spatial dimensions. This paper contributes to this debate by advancing our understanding of the spatial aspects of PPI and thus of the scope for using public procurement to achieve regional innovation policy goals. We connect the PPI literature with the literatures on innovation-driven regional development around the notion of 'conversations' to capture the spatial and social aspects of interactions relevant for PPI. Different forms of spatial anchoring of procurement, presenting different challenges and opportunities for regions, are explored. We provide illustrative examples for each type, from which implications are derived for promoting place-based 'innovationfriendly' procurement.

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Anchoring the innovation impacts of public procurement to place: The role of conversations

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Zabala‐Iturriagagoitia

2017

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“…Change agents are then further operationalized in the "people" dimension of the SPP Diagnosis Matrix, which involves the definition of targets related to personnel performance indicators (Step 2), action plan definition (Step 3) and implementation of the action plan (Step 4). The "knowledge" key factor, which accounts for skills and training [1,5,16,18,20,43,45,46,61,62], is also developed in a similar way in the "people" dimension of the SPP Diagnosis Matrix.…”

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“…Procurement factors focus on practices for supporting GPP, SPP and PPI, including: aggregate demand [20], market research [46], monitoring [7], SME participation [20], Life Cycle Costs (LCC) [21,46], risk management [20], functional criteria/variants [18,20,43,46] and IPR management [20]. All these key factors, excluding monitoring, are operationalized in Step 4, during the preparation of the procurement strategy.…”

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SPP Toolbox: Supporting Sustainable Public Procurement in the Context of Socio-Technical Transitions

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2017

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Public procurement can shape production and consumption trends and represents a stimulus for both innovation and diversification in products and services, through a direct increase in demand. In recent years, the interest in demand-side policies has grown and several approaches have emerged, such as Green Public Procurement (GPP), Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) and Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI), representing strategic goals to be achieved through public procurement. In this context, there is a need to guide and support public organizations in the uptake of GPP, SPP and PPI practices. To respond to the challenges raised by the operationalization of such strategies, this paper proposes a new tool-the SPP Toolbox-for guiding public organizations as they re-think the procurement process, raising their ambitions and broadening their vision, thus changing the organizational approach towards culture, strategies, structures and practices. This toolbox integrates insights from GPP, SPP and PPI objectives and practices, in the context of the emergence of socio-technical transitions. The toolbox coherently links GPP, SPP and PPI, allowing flexibility in terms of goals, yet promoting an increasing complexity of institutionalized practices and skills-from GPP to SPP and then from SPP to PPI, organized in a framework fully integrated into the organizational strategy.

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“…In this paper, PFEPCs are understood as a form of public procurement for innovation (PPI) (Edquist, 2012;Edler, 2007;Uyarra, 2014a). The experience with these PFEPCs can provide insights into the opportunities for, benefits of and obstacles to energy performance contracting in the public sector, together with the role of procurement frameworks in diffusing the EPC business model and costeffective energy efficiency measures.…”

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Innovative Procurement Frameworks for Energy Performance Contracting in the UK Public Sector

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SWPS 2015-31 (November) DisclaimerThe works av ailab le h ere ar e th e resp onsibility of the ind ividu al auth or(s) and do not necess arily repres ent the views of oth er SPRU researchers . As matters of policy and practice, SPRU does not endorse individual research contributions. Guidelines for authorsPapers sh all be submitted in pdf or Word format. They should con tain a title, an abstract, and keyw ords. Pap ers should be submitted to on e of th e Editors, who will process them and send them to th e appropriate Associate Editor. Tw o memb ers of SPRU will be asked to provide a short written rev iew within three weeks. The r evised v ersions of th e pap er, togeth er with a rep ly to the reviewers, should be sent to th e Associate Editor, who will prop ose to th e Editors its publication on th e series. When submitting th e authors shou ld ind icate if th e paper has already undergone peer-reviewing, in which case th e Associate Ed itors may decid e to skip internal review process. The SPRU Working Paper Series aims to accelerate the pub lic av ailab ility of the r esear ch undertaken by SPRU-associated p eople of all categories, and exceptionally, other r esear ch that is of consider able interest within SPRU. It pres ents research r esults that in whole or p art are suitab le for submission to a refereed journal, to a sp onsor, to a major confer ence or to th e editor of a book. Our intention is to provide access to early copies of SPRU research. AcknowledgementsThis research was funded by the Research Councils UK through their support for the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (Grant no. EP/KO11790/1). We are grateful to two anonymous referees of the SPRU Working Paper Series (SWPS) for their comments. 2 AbstractProcurement Frameworks for Energy Performance Contracting (PFEPCs) simplify the process of negotiating, developing and implementing Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) with Energy Service Companies (ESCOs). This paper analyses their role in promoting the implementation of cost-effective energy efficiency measures in the UK public sector. Compared to conventional approaches to procuring goods and services involving detailed specifications, PFEPCs translate the challenge of upgrading, retrofitting and replacing energy related equipment and infrastructures into required outputs through functional specifications. The innovativeness of specific PFEPCs often lies less in the diffusion of 'developmental' innovative energy efficient solutions, although partner bidding approaches create favourable conditions for innovation. However increasing standardisation and bundling prove successful at lowering transaction cost, which enables ESCOs to address projects which would not be considered in the absence of PFEPCs due to high transaction costs. This particular organisational innovation opens the market up to new approaches to implementing costeffective energy efficiency measures.

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Barriers to innovation through public procurement: A supplier perspective

Cited by 277 publications

References 17 publications

Anchoring the innovation impacts of public procurement to place: The role of conversations

Anchoring the innovation impacts of public procurement to place: The role of conversations

SPP Toolbox: Supporting Sustainable Public Procurement in the Context of Socio-Technical Transitions

Innovative Procurement Frameworks for Energy Performance Contracting in the UK Public Sector

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