Public procurement and innovation is the subject of a growing body of literature. This article
systematically reviews the existing research, documenting its evolution and highlighting …

Intermediation in innovation serves to establish or improve the link between different actors
with complementary skill sets or interests in order to support the generation and diffusion of …

Abstract 'Grand challenges' are gaining visibility in the policy agenda of most Member States
of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Diagnostic …

Public procurement accounts for a significant proportion of overall demand for goods and
services and is increasingly seen as an attractive and feasible instrument for furthering the …

Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest, both in academia and in policy
discussions, in the influence of public procurement on the development and introduction of …

The rapidly growing interest in sustainable operations in practice has been mirrored by an
equivalent expanding attention within the academic community. Yet, as encouraging and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of connections between
sustainability policy goals included in public procurement tenders and offers and their …

Public procurement is the commercial arm of governments, contracting for goods, and
services to feed public sector service provision. However, mainstream operations and …

The growing awareness of public procurement as an innovation policy tool has recently
sparked the interest of both policy makers and researchers. While an increasing number of …

Urban scholarship has begun to trouble the neat alignment of smart city governance with
urban entrepreneurialism. Starting from the proposition that states remain central in smart …