Does the Technological Content of Government Demand Matter for Private R&amp;D? Evidence from US States

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon

doi:10.1257/mac.20130069

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“…Comparing the effect of procurement to R&D subsidies and university research, they found that both public procurement and the public provision of R&D infrastructure in universities had a positive effect on firms' innovations. Slavtchev and Wiederhold (2016) find causal evidence of increasing technological content on R&D activities in high-tech sectors in the US. Czarnitzki et al (2018) use the German CIS data and show a significant positive effect of innovative procurement on the sales share of new products of firms who won a procurement contract.…”

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confidence: 79%

Green Public Procurement and the Innovation Activities of Firms

Zipperer

2019

SSRN Journal

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This paper provides first empirical insights on the relationship between green public procurement (GPP) and firms' innovation activities. Considering that the public sector is a large buyer in the economy, public procurement is able to work as demand-pull factor for new products and thus innovations-given that the procurement is aimed at such objectives. GPP is specifically implemented to contribute to more sustainable production and consumption. Using a novel firm-level dataset, this paper analyses whether GPP is able to trigger innovation activities within firms, and if so, whether these innovations are environmental innovations or not. The results show some support for a demand-pull effect of GPP on the probability of general product innovations but no conclusive evidence is found for environmental innovations.

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Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 79%

Green Public Procurement and the Innovation Activities of Firms

Zipperer

2019

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“…Second, as suggested by Ferraz et al (2015), firms winning procurement bids may benefit from learning mechanisms, insofar as winning a procurement contract allows them to better understand the dynamics of demand for their products, potentially feeding into growth along the extensive margin (penetrate new markets; obtain new clients). Third, government demand may incentivize pursuit of more risky activities, such as development and introduction of new (differentiated) products and new investments in R&D (Edler and Georghiou, 2007;Aschhoff et al, 2009;Slatchev and Wiederhold, 2016). Of course, these mechanisms may not apply equally to all types of firms and sectorsthe relationship will be heterogeneous, depending on firm characteristics.…”

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confidence: 99%

Firm Performance and Participation in Public Procurement: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Hoekman

Sanfilippo

2018

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The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Professor Brigid Laffan, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union.

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“…If the percentage of scientists, engineers, and technicians employed in an industry was at least twice the national average (4.9 percent in 2005) they considered the industry part of the tech sector. Many groups have used the BLS approach or a derivation thereof in their research [10][11][12][13][14], but the approach suffers from a seemingly arbitrary cut-off for the concentration of scientists, engineers, and technicians employed. It should also be noted that since the proportion of science-oriented employees within each industry and the national average proportion are both dynamic, thus requiring regular updates.…”

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Defining Tech: An Examination of How the‘Technology’ Economy is Measured

Hooton

2018

NBJICT

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The paper conducts a comprehensive review and critical comparison of the empirical methodologies for defining the high-technology sector (or 'tech') in social science research and analysis. It consolidates both qualitative (expert-based) approaches and quantitative (threshold-based) approaches for the broader audience of researchers. In the quantitative approaches, the paper identifies two accepted metrics and two loosely defined criteria used in distinguishing tech. The paper finds a generally consistent theoretical conceptualization for how to distinguish tech from other sectors, but inconsistency and no consensus on the implementation of that theory in applied research methods. The paper proposes two steps forward for future methodologies by identifying of a set of consensus industries present across tech definitions and by arguing for a continuum-based approach to identifying technology intensity in industries, businesses, and products/services.

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Does the Technological Content of Government Demand Matter for Private R&D? Evidence from US States

Cited by 40 publications

References 26 publications

Green Public Procurement and the Innovation Activities of Firms

Green Public Procurement and the Innovation Activities of Firms

Firm Performance and Participation in Public Procurement: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Defining Tech: An Examination of How the‘Technology’ Economy is Measured

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