Innovation procurement has emerged as a powerful tool to address pressing environmental, urban, and societal challenges. By strategically adopting this approach, many countries across Europe have witnessed remarkable improvements. In this article, we would like to showcase the benefits of Innovation Procurement through practical cases. All of them are based…
Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) plays a vital role in driving technological advancements and fostering innovation within the public sector. However, to achieve effective and efficient outcomes, it is essential to identify and address the challenges associated with PPI.
The circular economy is key to solving Europe’s waste crisis. As well as the rising cost of new materials by reducing the use of raw materials, and closing loops in different productive sectors. By creating a circular system with less pressure on virgin resources, direct and indirect negative environmental impacts…
The consortium of the BUILD initiative is happy to share the Value Proposition and Engagement Strategy. The first report presenting the insights on how to resonate with Innovation Procurement stakeholders.
The project coordinator, PEDAL Consulting, presented BUILD project at inspiring InnoBuyer conference: “Procurement of Innovation in 2023: challenges and opportunities” .
Innovation procurement is the process of acquiring goods, services, and works that are innovative and can contribute to achieving policy objectives. Some good practices for innovation procurement include:
Following the workshop organised by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency“Projects under the European Innovation Ecosystems Work Programme in support of the New European Innovation Agenda”, the Commission prepared a flash report including information on some of the projects of the first calls of European Innovation Ecosystems Work…
What is Innovation Procurement Task Force and Why is it Important? The European Union is constantly seeking ways to promote sustainability, resilience, and innovation across its member states. In an effort to drive progress in these areas, PROCEDIN, BUILD and Health InnoFacilitator projects have recently launched the Innovation Procurement Task…
ONLINE WORKSHOPS FOR BUYERS AND SUPPLIERS What kind of barriers are there in innovative procurements? What are the challenges and solutions? To answer these questions and more, four workshops under the BUILD project will be organised in March and April 2023 by the City of Tartu, the city of Turku…
The BUILD project team took part in the online workshop organised by Civitta last week. Together with other partners from City of Turku, Tartu and Rotterdam, we focused on: · understanding the BUILD audience (their perspectives, pains and gains) · understanding how BUILD actions add value for innovation procurers ·…
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