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Benchmarking of innovation procurement investments and policy frameworks across Europe

Check out the results of the first EU wide benchmarking of 2018 national policy frameworks and investments on innovation procurement across Europe and contribute to the second benchmarking that is ongoing.

Ongoing second benchmarking

The European Commission awarded the contract to implement the European innovation procurement observatory to PricewaterhouseCoopers EU Services EESV. This observatory is benchmarking, for the second time, the national national policy frameworks for innovation procurement and the national investments on innovation procurement that were made in 2022 across the 27 EU Member States, the UK, Switzerland and Norway. 

To kick-off the work of the second benchmarking, the observatory organised an online workshop with stakeholders from all countries involved on 23 March 2023: Materials of the workshop

The online survey that collects information about national policy frameworks for innovation procurement will be launched soon. Data collection about national investments on innovation procurement is also ongoing.

You can contact %20jelena [dot] drndicatpwc [dot] com (the observatory) if you have material to contribute.

Results of the first benchmarking

Total innovation procurement investments for research and development and PPI procurement

Study SMART 0016/0040 benchmarked for the first time the national policy frameworks for innovation procurement and the national investments on public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) that were made in the year 2018 across the 27 EU Member States, the UK, Switzerland and Norway.

This also includes an analysis of investments across different sectors of public interest (e.g. health, transport, security etc.) and strategic expenditure categories, in particular ICT, that fuel public sector modernisation. The Commission has added also the benchmarking for research and development procurement investments across Europe to get the full picture of 'all' innovation procurement investments (R&D+PPI procurement).

This Commission report contains the results of the EU wide benchmarking of total innovation procurement investments. This includes both the investments in research and development procurement and the investments in public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI procurement). 

Investments on PPI procurement and national policy frameworks for innovation procurement

The Final study report (EN) as published on the open data portal. As this report is very large, you find also the different parts below:

Country profiles

The country profiles explain for each country their position in the benchmarking of innovation procurement policy frameworks, in the benchmarking of total PPI investments and in the benchmarking of investments in PPI procurement of ICT-based solutions.

Material of the final study workshop - 12 October 2020

Material of the first kick-off study workshop - 7 September 2017