Early public procurement involvement in emerging technologies?: The case of tissue engineering

Research on the innovation process and its effective management has tended to focus on incremental innovations or “good practice.” In other words, “doing what we do, but better” (Phillips, Noke, Bessant & Lamming, 2006, p. 1). Such practice is well suited to stable product and market, but is not appropriate when new technologies emerge that challenge existing modes of practice and call for significantly adapted approaches (Day & Schoemaker, 2000; Leifer, McDermott, O’Conner, Peters, Rice & Veryzer, 2000).

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