Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy International Perspectives
This book maps the latest developments in public procurement of innovation policy in various contexts and analyzes the evolution and development of the various policy solutions in broader institutional contexts. In doing so, it addresses significant theor
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lic Procurement, Innovation and Policy International Perspectives
Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy
Veiko Lember Rainer Kattel Tarmo Kalvet •
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Editors Veiko Lember Rainer Kattel Tarmo Kalvet Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn Estonia
ISBN 978-3-642-40257-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-40258-6
ISBN 978-3-642-40258-6
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Foreword
After several decades of market fundamentalism and the drive for smaller governments, most countries—advanced, emerging or developing—are facing the need for rethinking the role of the State in the economy. This change of face is consistent with the view that the major bubble collapse reveals a serious decoupling between the financial world and the real economy as well as an acute polarisation of income within and between countries. It is illusory to expect markets to overcome these cleavages. Such ills can only be healed through the intervention of the State as an active and creative agent of innovation for gro
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