Public procurement of innovation for a better world: a consolidation or a new beginning?

Rolfstam, Max

doi:10.1080/13511610.2015.1065139

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“…In addition empirical studies have explored the impacts of procurement on innovation performance and identified key drivers, barriers and processes associated with its use as an innovation policy instrument (e.g. Aschhoff and Sofka, W., Edquist et al, 2000Edquist et al, , 2015Lember et al, 2013;Uyarra et al, 2014;Rolfstam, 2013Rolfstam, , 2015.…”

Section: -Public Procurement and Innovation A Missing Geographicalmentioning

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

Uyarra¹,

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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Section: -Public Procurement and Innovation A Missing Geographicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Uyarra¹,

Flanagan²,

Zabala‐Iturriagagoitia

2017

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…A more recent wave of research has applied endogenous institutional lenses to try to reconcile the potential to use public procurement as an instrument of innovation policy with the limitations and realpolitik of its regional and local practical settings (see e.g. Rolfstam, 2015). The contribution of this body of work was to demonstrate that when viewed as an embedded activity conducted by organizations in particular places and times (as opposed to a series of independent transactions), public procurement becomes a complex series of weightings and judgements between multiple policy objectives, including innovation, economic development, and social and environmental improvement, that compete for the attention of practitioners and where the overarching values of lowest cost, transactional and managerial efficiency still dominate decision-making and resource allocation (Erridge, 2007;Pickernell, Kay, Packham, & Miller, 2011).…”

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Exploring the normative turn in regional innovation policy: responsibility and the quest for public value

Uyarra

Ribeiro

Dale-Clough

2019

European Planning Studies

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The perceived ineffectiveness of traditional innovation policies in solving societal challenges such as poverty, ageing, climate change as well as problems of regional economic restructuring has motivated a recent 'normative turn' in innovation policy. This has shifted the debate on the rationales for intervention from market and system failures to accommodate more transformative views but also other approaches rooted in the notion of public value and has led innovation scholars to question not just the how and how much of innovation but also key issues of directionality, legitimacy and responsibility. By engaging the processes through which actors 'know, investigate and perform innovation', we argue that the concept of responsible research and innovation (RRI) offers a potentially useful lens for re-casting our understanding of innovationrelated decision making. We apply RRI to assessing the opportunities and challenges of public procurement as an instrument of challengeoriented and transformative innovation policy. More specifically, we look at how local authorities in the UK are using the Social Value Act to define priorities and articulate demand around social, environmental and community needs as well as coordinate different processes and actors, policy levers and processes. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…La CPR supone adquirir bienes y servicios existentes en el mercado (Peñate y Sánchez, 2015). En principio, no implica el desarrollo de innovaciones, pero puede ocurrir que espontáneamente se desarrolle una innovación que permita satisfacer la demanda pública (Hommen y Rolfstam, 2009;Gavras et al, 2010).…”

Section: Tipología De Compra Pública Para Estimular La Innovaciónunclassified

Las políticas de demanda en el proceso de innovación: fundamentos e instrumentos

Carreira

Peñate-Valentín²,

Vázquez

2017

RIPS

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El estudio de las políticas de innovación puede abordarse desde la perspectiva de oferta o de demanda. Tradicionalmente, en la literatura predomina la primera, resaltando su papel promotor del avance científico. Las políticas desde la demanda alcanzan un protagonismo notable en los últimos años como estrategia para fomentar la innovación. Su creciente relevancia se debe a la expansión de la demanda pública como instrumento para favorecer la actividad innovadora y el desarrollo regional. El objetivo principal de este artículo es analizar las políticas de innovación desde la demanda, así como sus características y potencial para fomentar la actividad innovadora. Asimismo, se pretende estudiar la compra pública innovadora para conocer con mayor profundidad este instrumento, definiendo sus principales características y tipologías. Los resultados contribuyen a una mayor comprensión de las políticas de innovación desde la perspectiva de la demanda, lo que permite un mejor diseño de las políticas para fomentar la innovación. En ese sentido, se proponen algunas recomendaciones para conseguir una mayor efectividad de la compra pública innovadora, así como para facilitar las sinergias entre las políticas de innovación desde las perspectivas de oferta y demanda.

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Public procurement of innovation for a better world: a consolidation or a new beginning?

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 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

Exploring the normative turn in regional innovation policy: responsibility and the quest for public value

Las políticas de demanda en el proceso de innovación: fundamentos e instrumentos

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