Public Procurement of Innovation: Towards a European Scheme

Feasibility study "Future EU support to public procurement of innovative solutions"

The need for support of the procurement of innovation by the European Commission is a strongly supported policy option to deliver innovation across the European Union, driven by the demand of public procurement budgets of Member States. The feasibility study shows there is support for such a policy to be launched and that it should have both top-down and bottom-up instruments or modalities to support procurement including actual procurements of innovative goods and services.

• Summary of the study [207 KB]
• Full version [868 KB]

High level meeting discussing results of the feasibility study - "The Power of the Purse - Public Procurement of Innovation", February 9, 2012, European Parliament

In order to prepare the future developments in the field of innovation procurement, Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director General of DG enterprise and Industry) and Malcolm Harbour (MEP, Chairman of the IMCO Committee) co-chaired the exchange of views based on for the findings of the study. They engaged discussion with IMCO and ITRE Members and received views from European procurers, innovation agencies, venture capitalists, academics and researchers, SME organisation and industry representatives. Scenarios sketched by the study were discussed, as well as three main aspects: implementation structure, budget figures and fields of deployment (inline with Societal Challenges or industrial policy sectors).

Agenda and other documents

• Agenda [171 KB]

Presentations

• Public Procurement of Innovation – Feasibility of an EU Scheme [458 KB] - John Rigby (Manchester University, UK) & Patries Boekholt (Technopolis group)
• From demand-led innovation policies and innovation procurement to industrial policies [2 MB] - Luke Georghiou (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, UK)
• Linking Innovation Procurement and SBIR type European scheme, David Connell [20 KB] (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Venture capitalist)

Mid-term high level expert workshop on the feasibility study - "Public Procurement of Innovation: Towards a European Scheme", March 31, 2011

The workshop aimed at further developing the content of the future CIP call for proposals, to be launched by the end of June 2011, and at presenting the methodology and gathering suggestions and contributions for a post 2013 European financial support scheme.

Agenda and other documents

• Agenda [88 KB]
• Opening speech of Mr Antonio Preto [30 KB] , Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Antonio Tajani
• Main outcomes of the conference [463 KB]
• Feasibility study – draft interim report [2 MB]

Presentations

• Demand side innovation policies and the state of play in innovation procurement [3 MB] – Luke Georghiou (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, UK)
• Feasibility study part 1: Options for the forthcoming CIP call for proposals [3 MB] (June 2011) – John Rigby (Manchester University, UK) & Jasper Deuten (Technopolis group)
• Feasibility study part 2: presentation of the methodology to develop a post 2013 EU scheme [287 KB] – John Rigby (Manchester University, UK) & Jasper Deuten (Technopolis group)
• Member States' vision and role on public innovation procurement [4 MB] – Marieke van Putten (Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, NL) & Mark Glover (Business Planning, UK)