Linking innovation and public procurement
DG Enterprise and Industry organised on 20-21 October 2009 a two days workshop: “Linking Innovation and Public Procurement: options for the new European Plan for Innovation” that brought together experts, policy makers and practitioners to discuss possible options for future EU level actions to better link innovation and public procurement.
The current European regulatory frameworks and guidance have been discussed, as well as the existing transnational collaboration between procurers, the developments on social and environmental specifications on public procurements, and specific schemes for procurements of innovative solutions developed mainly by Member States, notably inspired by the USA Small Business Innovation Research programme.
Programme of the workshop 
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Workshop summary of discussions [55 KB]
List of participants 
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Workshop presentations:
20 October - first session
" Facilitating access to public procurement for innovative SMEs [195 KB] ", Direction générale de la competivité de l'industrie et des services
" Modernisation of public procurement law in Germany [63 KB] ", Mike Weber, Berlin University of Technology
" EU Green Public Procurement Policy [128 KB] ", Alenka Burja, European Commission, DG Environment
" Options for the new European Plan for Innovation [34 KB] ", Lena Tsipouri, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
20 October - second session
" Common Procurement of collective and public service transport clean vehicles [423 KB] " (COMPRO), Silvia Gaggi (ISIS), Dario Dubolino (EACI)
" Enhancing Innovation in Pre-commercial Public Purchasing processes [149 KB] ", Suvi Kemppainen, Culminatum Innovation Ltd Oy
" SCI Network [488 KB] ", Simon Clement, ICLEI
21 October - first session
" Addressing the Innovation Imperative. Experiences with the U.S. SBIR scheme [627 KB] ", Charles Wessner, The National Academies
" Buying Innovation [292 KB] ", Wendy Gray, Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Development
" SBIR in the Netherlands; a new perspective for Europe? [734 KB] ", André Roos, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
OSEO presentation [46 KB]
" SBRI [238 KB] ", Mark Glover, SBRI
21 October - second session
" Creating an EU SBIR Programme: lessons from the UK and proposals for EC action [221 KB] ", David Connell, Cambridge University
" Linking public procurement and innovation. Exploring options for EU support [2 MB] ", Keith Sequeria, European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry
" A stage model of policy [34 KB] ", Andrea Bonaccorsi, University of Pisa
For more information on innovation in public procurement in general, please see the innovation policy webpage on public procurement.
