Embedding public procurement for innovation partnerships in place: Discursive practices for the place-embedded and responsive relationships
研究了公共采购创新伙伴关系如何通过话语实践嵌入地方，揭示出采购方与供应商之间的地方嵌入关系以及供应商与地方之间的响应性关系，对区域创新政策制定者有用。
In innovation policy, public procurement contributes to solving of societal problems in line with government-level objectives, while also ensuring local service provision at the regional level. Public procurement for innovation (PPI) is based on an innovation-seeking partnership in which procurement is socially constructed among public and private parties as well as other stakeholders. Drawing on public procurement studies within the innovation policy research domain and place-focused approaches in geography, we conceptualise the PPI partnership as embedded in the material and social place of its implementation. Through a study of an innovative school procurement project in a small municipality, we illustrate how the relationship with place is discursively produced in conversations between the parties. We induce collaboration-bound and community-bound discursive practices that carry the procurement's features and the meanings attached to the place of the PPI partnership. As a result, two relationships emerge: a place-embedded one between the procurer and the supplier, and a responsive one between the supplier and the place. By acknowledging the relationship to place, it is possible to leverage the benefits of PPI at the regional level and enable innovation policies to support the absorption of PPI partnerships in local conditions. • Place actively shapes public-private innovation partnerships. • Discursive practices embed public-private innovation partnerships in place. • Two relationships emerge from collaboration-bound and community-bound discursive practices. • Place-embedded relationships connect public buyers and private suppliers with local contexts. • Responsive relationships build on local norms and values to link suppliers to place.