Stitching the Patchwork Quilt: Integrating the Diverse Literatures Relevant to Complex Product Innovation in a Government Monospony

This paper reviews the economic, political science/strategic, business and operational literatures on complex product innovation in government markets. It categorizes their insights in terms of the sources of innovation they identify – civilian leadership, bureaucratic politics, new technologies and user innovations – to illustrate the overlap among the disciplinary insights. It argues that past studies have over emphasized innovations generated by idiosyncratic events; if useful prescriptions are to be developed, the process of normal complex product innovation in monopsony markets must be examined. To this end, the paper suggests several priorities for

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