Delighted to share that my article introducing a method for measuring innovation capabilities in public contractors has been published in Science and Public Policy (special open-access link below). The article is based on my doctoral research.
It details the development of an Innovation Capability Index (ICI) that captures a set of diverse innovation-related capabilities within a single empirical measure. The ICI is a new tool for measuring what is called behavioral additionality, i.e. internal innovation capability changes in private companies induced by public policy.
The ICI was applied to health-insurance contractors participating in the U.S. Medicare Advantage program, which ties financial incentives to annual performance ratings. It was found that innovation capability is positively associated with higher performance ratings, which may be due to multiple causal pathways.
The approach offers a generalizable program-evaluation tool for evaluating how performance-based procurement programs may indirectly stimulate contractor innovation.
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