Abstract
In many countries, sustainable public procurement is a powerful tool to reflect on national strategic intentions and promote scientific and technological innovation. Based on the perspective of an institutional structure, we filtered out the core policies. Using policy bibliometrics, we analyzed Chinese public procurement policies on promoting scientific and technological innovation, revealed policy-making characteristics, and concluded that the Ministry of Finance should appropriately decentralize the policy-making work to other relevant agencies of the State Council. This article compares the main policy tools from four dimensions in China, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, and South Korea. We issued these pertinent strategies: establishing the vendor database for small and medium enterprises, developing a grade system and the post-evaluation system, formulating detailed implementation methods for high-tech products (services), and carrying out classification management for imported products. For sustainable public procurement policies on promoting scientific and technological innovation, this article provides an effective reference to organize the agencies and formulate the detail measures. This article’s research framework could be applied to analyze other industry policies.
Highlights
On 1 April 2014, the Open Work Group of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared that “sustainable public procurement” was the first action plan launched
Each policy category contained a number of policy tools, and a policy tool is in the form of multiple terms
This article mainly involves the classification of policy tools and the selection of keywords
Summary
On 1 April 2014, the Open Work Group of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared that “sustainable public procurement” was the first action plan launched. The SDGs 12.7 (2017) stated that they would “promote public procurement practices that are sustainable in accordance with national policies and priorities [2]”, and called on environmental protection and energy conservation, protecting workers’ rights, taking care of backward areas, and conforming to national strategy and security when conducting Public Procurement (PP). SDGs 12.7 would expand the environmental and social benefits brought by government expenditures, and promote the global sustainable development and economic growth transformation into a high-speed track [3]. Coming to “value money”, PP behavior has been playing a policy function to promote sustainable development. It is an important policy to support domestic enterprises’ innovation and development from the demand side [5]. As an effective system to promote S&T innovation, the role of PP policy has been widely recognized [6]
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