The Innovation Procurement Brokers project aims to facilitate the procurement of innovative goods and services by strengthening the links between public buyers on the demand side and innovative companies on the supply side. Innovation procurement brokerage can provide increased opportunities for SMEs with solutions to public authority needs to bid for tenders. Public authorities will benefit from increased knowledge of and access to new market innovations.
Read more Read less1 combined Innobrokers model for future activities 5 market engagement events 5 needs assessment workshops 20 public buyers engaged with the network 40 suppliers engaged with the network
Read more Read lessPublic buyers are supported in the identification of their needs and, once ready, connected with SMEs and start-ups able to develop innovative solutions responding to their requirements. A total of five regional procurement of innovation broker schemes will be piloted in the Upper Austria Region, Denmark, North Rhine Westfalia (Germany), Ireland and Andalusia (Spain), then scaled up to a European level. We test innovation procurement brokerage approaches at regional and European level, we support and carry out assessments of public authority needs and we engage with start-ups and SMEs across Europe to find innovative solutions to needs.
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Andalusian Knowledge Agency, Austrian Institute of Technology, Gate 21, Procurement Transformation Institute, ZENIT GmbH - Centre for Innovation and Technology in NRW
