Procurement and Innovation Making Procurement Work

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Procurement and InnovationMaking Procurement
Work

• Ken Guy
• Wise Guys Ltd.
• Six Countries Programme
• Procurement and Innovation Workshop
• Manchester
• 16/11/2005

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Aim of the Workshop

• To discuss the role of procurement in stimulating
  innovation
• To focus on the barriers to procurement
  fulfilling this potential
• To formulate suggestions aimed at overcoming
  barriers and making procurement work
• To produce a short summary of these suggestions
  and disseminate it widely amongst policymakers

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Structure of the Workshop

• Four brief presentations
• Two parallel breakout sessions
• One final plenary session

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Presentations

• The policy context in which procurement can be
  used to stimulate innovation
• Recent changes in public procurement directives
  at an EU level
• Examples of best practice from across the EU
• The UK national approach to procurement and
  innovation

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Parallel Sessions

• Identify the most important obstacles to the
  effective use of procurement as a tool to
  stimulate innovation
• Articulate the most important steps that need to
  be taken at EU and national levels to overcome
  these barriers
• Differentiate between the types of steps needed
  in different national or institutional contexts

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Final Plenary Session

• Report back by Rapporteurs
• Commentary by Round Table composed of speakers
  and chairs of sessions
• General discussion
• Concluding remarks