KIBS for public needs

Abstract

Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) are special in that they rely on knowledge exchange between service providers and consumers and thus intensive cooperation between the two parties is essential at all stages. This implies approaches to find the "right" provider may have to differ from those used in the sector of more homogeneous services and goods. Public procurement regulation aims to improve competitiveness, yet does this help achieving the best value for money in the procurement of KIBS? Legislative constraints on the types of admissible public procurement mechanisms may have an undesirable effect on the provider selection, meaning that services may not be purchased from the most efficient or the most suitable provider. As a benchmark, private consumers are unconstrained in their choice of KIBS providers. We exploit this difference to study the efficiency of KIBS purchases by the public sector, as compared to that in the private sector. Using the 2007 and 2011 waves of a unique survey of KIBS consumers in Russia, we find, inter alia, that the public sector reports lower satisfaction from KIBS and admits a lower level of co-production than the private sector. Our main recommendations refer to the optimal choice of public procurement methods.

Innovation and co-creation in knowledge intensive business services: the Spinner model

“…KIBS represent a special case as they depend on the exchange of knowledge between purveyors of services and their consumers and, thus, intensive cooperation between both parties becomes essential in every phase of these business solutions (Vinogradov et al , 2018). This interprets the solutions as a knowledge exchange-based strategy involving the KIBS and the firms receiving such knowledge-based views while considering the protection of critical knowledge through the intermediation of KIBS to be critical as the co-creation of knowledge is a process heavily dependent on the interactions ongoing between the parties involved and hindering the protection of knowledge by firms taking receipt of such services.…”

Efficiency of small and medium enterprises support in the public procurement system of the Russian Federation

“…Причину данного явления предстоит изучить дополнительно. В настоящее время, опираясь на исследова-ния более раннего периода [Vinogradov, Shadrina, Doroshenko, 2018], можно полагать, что заказчики, работающие по 44-ФЗ (государственные и муниципальные органы власти, бюджетные учреждения, государственные и муниципальные казенные учреждения, унитарные предприятия, государственные корпорации), находясь «ближе к власти», более ответственно и аккуратно выполняют установленные законодательством требования применения мер поддержки малого бизнеса. Вместе с тем заказчики, работающие по 223-ФЗ (автономные учреждения, государственные корпорации, государственные компании, публично-правовые компании, субъекты естественных монополий, хозяйственные общества с долей государственного участия), более самостоятельны и независимы.…”