“How to Refine your Needs and Engage the Market” - 2nd Online Workshop of the BRINC Network of Public Authorities

Organised by "BRINC"

BRINC partners organised on 08 February 2023 the second workshop of the BRINC Professional Network of Public Authorities Interested in Public Procurement of Innovation. The workshop focused on how public authorities can refine their needs and engage the market. Two case studies were presented: one from Sweden on demand acceleration, looking at how the public sector can drive innovation through market engagement and another, from the Netherlands, on the IWR2021 project.

Recording

The BRINC project

Case Study #1: Demand acceleration – how public sector can drive innovation through market engagement

Case study #2: Market engagement for sustainability and innovation in project IWR2021 Workspace Hardware

Presentations

Programme

10:00 - 10:10 - Welcome & Introduction
Danko Aleksic, ACR+

10:10 - 10:15 - The BRINC Project
Ben Jorgensen, CLEAN

10:15 - 10:45 - Case Study #1: Demand acceleration – how public sector can drive innovation through market engagement
Lina Svensberg, Innovation manager, Compare, Sweden

10:50 - 11:20 - Case study #2: Market engagement for sustainability and innovation in project IWR2021 Workspace Hardware
Johan Rodenhuis, Senior Sustainability Advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Netherlands

11:20 - 11:50 - Workshop - Interactive exchange with participants: what are your challenges in engaging the market? Do you have a good example of successful market dialogue?

If you missed the first workshop, on needs assessment, you can have a look at the presentations of two case-studies (the Programme for Innovation Procurement of Flanders and the example of Tomelilla municipality) made on that day here.