E-Government – A Demand-Side Innovation Policy in Romania

• Main Author: Sabina - Cristiana Necula
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2012-10-01
• Series: Acta Universitatis Danubius: Oeconomica
• Subjects: E - Government; public procurements for innovation; web 2 . 0; e - tax; innovation policy
• Online Access: http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/oeconomica/article/view/1430/1318

The present paper presents with example the actual status of E-Government in Romania. We start with an introduction which presents the importance of government implications in public procurement for innovation with concrete data of government’s investments and policies for innovation. In this section we include objectives and prior work. We approach our research by presenting web 2.0 technologies for E-government services with examples from other countries. The article focuses on the actual status of E-government in Romania. The main conclusions of the paper are presented in the end of the article. Our results are summarized in a discussion section. The value and implications of our research is in the area of governmental public sector innovation.