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Inclusion criteria for research

Inclusion criteria	Rationale
Research published anytime	Allows a large knowledge and evidence pool from peer-reviewed sources required to answer our research question. Time limits in the search and selection may cause selection bias Durach et al. (2017)
Research in the English language	The English language is the common language of the research team and is largely used in the research topic field Seuring and Gold (2012)
Peer-reviewed studies published in a journal	Peer-reviewed articles published in journals are considered to be of high quality compared to articles that are not peer-reviewed. Hence, conference proceedings, books, book chapters, and editorials were excluded
SCI studies that are policy-oriented	To gather relevant evidence to explain how government buyers regulate and stimulate SCI Wang et al. (2023)
Public procurement and policy research that aims to drive market/SCI	To gather relevant evidence to explain the procurement policy dynamics for promoting innovation in markets and industries through demand. Focuses on SCI driven from the demand side and downstream oriented
SCI studies that discuss supply network elements as an enabler	Gather evidence to explain how government agencies may regulate supply network activities to drive SCI
Include articles irrespective of their methods, theory, context, etc.	Aims to minimise selection bias Durach et al. (2017)

Inclusion criteria	Rationale
Research published anytime	Allows a large knowledge and evidence pool from peer-reviewed sources required to answer our research question. Time limits in the search and selection may cause selection bias Durach et al. (2017)
Research in the English language	The English language is the common language of the research team and is largely used in the research topic field Seuring and Gold (2012)
Peer-reviewed studies published in a journal	Peer-reviewed articles published in journals are considered to be of high quality compared to articles that are not peer-reviewed. Hence, conference proceedings, books, book chapters, and editorials were excluded
SCI studies that are policy-oriented	To gather relevant evidence to explain how government buyers regulate and stimulate SCI Wang et al. (2023)
Public procurement and policy research that aims to drive market/SCI	To gather relevant evidence to explain the procurement policy dynamics for promoting innovation in markets and industries through demand. Focuses on SCI driven from the demand side and downstream oriented
SCI studies that discuss supply network elements as an enabler	Gather evidence to explain how government agencies may regulate supply network activities to drive SCI
Include articles irrespective of their methods, theory, context, etc.	Aims to minimise selection bias Durach et al. (2017)

Source(s): Authors’ construct and based on previous works Durach et al. (2017); Seuring and Gold (2012)