ABSTRACT
To be able to comprehensively analyze the economy of secondary capital cities (SCCs), an interdisciplinary perspective is required. According to Doloreux and Parto, a regional innovation system (RIS) is "typically understood to be a set of interacting private and public interests, formal institutions, and other organizations that function according to organizational and institutional arrangements and relationships conducive to the generation, use, and dissemination of knowledge". The knowledge generation subsystem in a capital city consists of national research laboratories, but also universities. National-level research laboratories, think tanks, and universities, for example, generate and pool knowledge that is relevant to the context of public procurement. This includes technical or scientific knowledge, as well as know-how about developments in the marketplace. Many relevant actors in public procurement are spatially concentrated in the capital city. As a result, public procurement can create regional knowledge dynamics.
