Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy: International Perspectives

Veiko Lember, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow in Public Management and Policy at Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. He is also a Managing Editor of the journal Halduskultuur-Administrative Culture. His main research interests are in public administration and innovation policy, and his recent works have covered issues such as public procurement of innovation, public-private partnerships, contracting-out and coordination in the public sector. His works have been published in various journals, e.g. in Urban Studies, Public Administration and Development, Journal of Public Procurement and Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.

Rainer Kattel, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance, and Head of Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology. He is also a co-director of its Technology Governance program, www.technologygovernance.eu. His main research area is industrial and innovation policies in catching-up economies, especially Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has published extensively on innovation policy and development economics. His recent books include Ragnar Nurkse: Trade and Development (co-edited with Jan A. Kregel and Erik S. Reinert; Anthem, 2009) and Knowledge Governance: Reasserting the Public Interest (co-edited with Leonardo Burlamaqui and Ana Celia Castro; Anthem, 2012).

Tarmo Kalvet, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow in the field of innovation policy and technology governance at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. For many years, he was the founding head of the Innovation Policy Research Programme at the Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Estonia’s leading policy think tank, as well as one of its board members. His main research interests are innovation policy (especially in small states), public procurement for innovation, and e-government, and he has published extensively on those topics in journals like Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Urban Studies, Electronic Government, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management and IEEE Computer Society.