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The increased interest in using public procurement as a policy tool for innovation has renewed a need for understanding the procurement process. A conjecture on institutional rationalities and property rights is offered to explain the hurdles present for conducting successful procurement projects. If an efficient negotiation solution is to be achieved, participants in procurement projects need to be aware of the other participants’ institutional rationalities and actively consider these while concluding the terms of procurement projects. Consequently, future policy efforts towards increased innovation have to be targeting the process of public procurement of innovation, rather than focusing on regulatory issues.
>robert.agren@construction.lth.se<, Department of Construction Sciences; >max@business.aau.dk<, Department of Business and Management.
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Ågren, R., Rolfstam, M. (2014). A Conjecture on Institutional Rationalities and Property Rights in Public Procurement of Innovation. In: Decarolis, F., Frey, M. (eds) Public Procurement’s Place in the World. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430649_6
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