seen as an attractive and feasible instrument for furthering the goals of innovation policy. However, public procurement is … innovation draws upon a limited set of examples which are not representative of the bulk of public purchasing and tend to … the nature of innovations and in the range of ways that procurement can impact upon innovation. A one-size-fits-all model …

Recent years have seen the emergence, take-up and use of the term 'policy mix' by innovation policy makers and by … the field of innovation policy studies provides us with a window of opportunity to reconsider some basic and often hidden … studies literature and on evolutionary thinking in order to re-conceptualise the basic building blocks of innovation policy …