Don't Kill Innovation With Public Tenders

Published: July 14, 2021, 5:22 p.m.

b'What is the meaning of public tender, which dilemmas are often associated with them, and which possibilities there might be to design tenders in a way that innovation is not killed during the tendering phase? We will elaborate on the desirable and undesired effects of tenders on innovation, market design, and competition.\\n\\nPublic Tenders in general have a very bad reputation. The term public tender is more often connected with corruption than progressiveness. This might be associated with the fact that many public tenders are wrapped up in high amounts of bureaucracy and few or none of the positive effects are actually visible to those who should benefit from them.'