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Data sources

Case study

Firm-level surveys

Administrative data

Procurement captured through …

Public procurement projects

Firm participation in public sector contracts

Tender, contract award notice, and procurement expenditure

Public procurement and innovation (PPI) distinguished by …

Not clear—although the complexity of the products or services being purchased sometimes suggests a departure from regular procurement

Asking if public contracts required innovation

Text analysis of notices (especially description of procurement objectives) to identify the expression of innovation concepts

Impact is understood as …

Cost-savings, better knowledge co-creation, innovation adoption, and improved organizational practices

Firm turnover and introduction/adoption of product, process, or environmental innovation

Innovation adoption, SME participation, private R&D expenditure, and patents

Advantages

In-depth analysis of the conditions and policy decisions affecting PPI implementation

simple and direct instrument, extensively piloted and reliable, and accessible

Information at the level of contracts; identify different procurement practices, contract design, and qualitative aspects of contracts; and differentiate procurement by regions or economic sectors

Limitations

Context-specific, lack of generalizability

Anonymised, lacks information on the size of government support, self-identification can create variability, difficult to find large panels to analyse medium- and long-term impacts of procurement, and lacks information of regional/ local procurement

resource-intensive (volume of data requires sampling or automated analysis) and challenges in linking notices (intentions) with outcomes

Table 2.

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A summary of the main approaches adopted in empirical PPI research.

Data sources	Case study	Firm-level surveys	Administrative data
Procurement captured through …	Public procurement projects	Firm participation in public sector contracts	Tender, contract award notice, and procurement expenditure
Public procurement and innovation (PPI) distinguished by …	Not clear—although the complexity of the products or services being purchased sometimes suggests a departure from regular procurement	Asking if public contracts required innovation	Text analysis of notices (especially description of procurement objectives) to identify the expression of innovation concepts
Impact is understood as …	Cost-savings, better knowledge co-creation, innovation adoption, and improved organizational practices	Firm turnover and introduction/adoption of product, process, or environmental innovation	Innovation adoption, SME participation, private R&D expenditure, and patents
Advantages	In-depth analysis of the conditions and policy decisions affecting PPI implementation	simple and direct instrument, extensively piloted and reliable, and accessible	Information at the level of contracts; identify different procurement practices, contract design, and qualitative aspects of contracts; and differentiate procurement by regions or economic sectors
Limitations	Context-specific, lack of generalizability	Anonymised, lacks information on the size of government support, self-identification can create variability, difficult to find large panels to analyse medium- and long-term impacts of procurement, and lacks information of regional/ local procurement	resource-intensive (volume of data requires sampling or automated analysis) and challenges in linking notices (intentions) with outcomes

Data sources	Case study	Firm-level surveys	Administrative data
Procurement captured through …	Public procurement projects	Firm participation in public sector contracts	Tender, contract award notice, and procurement expenditure
Public procurement and innovation (PPI) distinguished by …	Not clear—although the complexity of the products or services being purchased sometimes suggests a departure from regular procurement	Asking if public contracts required innovation	Text analysis of notices (especially description of procurement objectives) to identify the expression of innovation concepts
Impact is understood as …	Cost-savings, better knowledge co-creation, innovation adoption, and improved organizational practices	Firm turnover and introduction/adoption of product, process, or environmental innovation	Innovation adoption, SME participation, private R&D expenditure, and patents
Advantages	In-depth analysis of the conditions and policy decisions affecting PPI implementation	simple and direct instrument, extensively piloted and reliable, and accessible	Information at the level of contracts; identify different procurement practices, contract design, and qualitative aspects of contracts; and differentiate procurement by regions or economic sectors
Limitations	Context-specific, lack of generalizability	Anonymised, lacks information on the size of government support, self-identification can create variability, difficult to find large panels to analyse medium- and long-term impacts of procurement, and lacks information of regional/ local procurement	resource-intensive (volume of data requires sampling or automated analysis) and challenges in linking notices (intentions) with outcomes

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