Project description
Strengthening innovation procurement with cooperation among innovation ecosystem actors
The New European Innovation Agenda is designed to put Europe at the forefront of next-generation deep tech innovation, making it a place where innovators, start-ups and scale-ups can become global innovation leaders. Public-private partnerships can play a valuable role. The EU-funded PREPARE project intends to lay the groundwork for the creation of innovation procurement policies and instruments at regional and European levels leveraging joint cooperation. Using four development sites, the project will identify regional public entities in charge of innovation policies and key innovation ecosystem players. It will then prepare a joint programme and four regional action plans to strengthen their innovation ecosystems in line with the New European Innovation Agenda.
Objective
This project is a preparatory action for creating innovation procurement policies and instruments that can be effective and sustainable at regional level, but also relevant at European level. The preparatory work will be achieved by using four European regions that cover the full range of innovation performances defined by the EC’s Regional Innovation Scoreboard as development sites: Murcia (ES), Skåne (SE), Bucharest-Ilfov (RO) and Oulu (FI).
During the project, the project consortium will:
1. Gather information from i) regional public bodies in charge of innovation policies and funding instruments, and ii) innovation ecosystem players, which propose and execute projects, using state of the art learnings and best practices.
2. Analyse this information to produce a Joint Programme and four regional Action Plans to incorporate innovation procurement to each region’s policy and increase its impact by leveraging EU initiatives and funding.
The PREPARE consortium will produce and widely disseminate added-value results, including a knowledge asset on the state of the art of innovation procurement and policy recommendations. Exploitation initiatives will deliver capacity building, policy promotion at EU, national and regional level and the engagement of a network of EU regions interested in leveraging public procurement instruments to foster impactful innovation.
Keywords
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
MAIN PROGRAMME
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HORIZON.3.2.3 - Joint programmes close to innovators
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2023-CONNECT-01
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30100 MURCIA
Spain
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