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Workshop 8.12. in Copenhagen on Public Procurement and Innovation within the Health Sector / Nordic countries

Suzan Ikävalko
Posted by suzanikavalko 1 month, 2 weeks ago Category: Events, News, Uncategorized, WP2 - eHealth

As an initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordic Innovation a workshop was organized 8.12. 2011  in Copenhagen.

The aim of this joint initiative is to speed up and facilitate Nordic cooperation within the Innovative public procurement field, with specific emphasis on the Health sector. Another positive impact is hopefully alignment with EU initiatives as advocated in the Horizon 2020 strategy and upcoming EU work programmes.

The presentations from the workshop, including one on Preco-project findings,  can be found on the links to SlideShare from the news article below:

http://www.nordicinnovation.org/news/public-procurement-within-health-care-on-the-agenda-in-copenhagen/

The first PCP call for tender in Italy: a pilot project in South Tyrol

Posted by filippomazzariol 1 month, 3 weeks ago Category: News, Reports and documents, WP2 - eHealth

In October 2011, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano / Bozen, Italy, also known as South Tyrol, launched their first PCP “Closed Loop” call for tender to get radiotherapy appliances developed and supplied.

One of the first examples of true pre-commercial procurement call for tender to be set up in the European Union, the PCP call can be downloaded from the Bolzano Province official website www.bandi-altoadige.it along with all the relevant documents, forms and guidelines for participation. Available both in Italian and German, the call for tender has been set up according to the specific point of view of the local administrators and shared with the DG Information Society and Media  of the European Commission.

PreCo Final Consensus Workshop

Veneta Gineva
Posted by Veneta Gineva 3 months, 2 weeks ago Category: Events, News

PreCo Final Consensus Workshop will take part during the eChallenge Conference 2011 in Florence Italy.

Link to the final program of the event: http://www.echallenges.org/e2011/default.asp?page=programme-new

Workshop name: Enhancing Innovations in Pre-Commercial Public Purchasing process

Chairman: Suzan Ikävalko, Culminatum Innovation, Finland

Presnters:

Irina Zalisova, EPMA, Czech Republik. “The Roadmap to Enhancing Innovation by Pre-commercial Procurment”

Max Rolfstam, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. “User based Pre-commercial Purchase”

Alvaro Oliveira, Alfamicro, Portugal. “Pre-commercial Procurement Best Practices in European eEnergy Sector”

PreCo Steering Committee meeting will take place during the eChallenge Conference on 27.10.2011, 09.30-11.30 a.m

Presentations now available: High level event on Pre-Commercial Procurement 11-12.4. in Budapest – towards a smarter research and innovation strategy for Europe.

Suzan Ikävalko
Posted by suzanikavalko 11 months ago Category: Events, News, PreCo Workshops, Uncategorized

Presentations: www.pcp2011.eszakalfold.hu

Draft agenda PCP Event 11-12.4.2011  High-level event on pre-commercial procurement – towards a smarter research and innovation procurement strategy for Europe (11-12 April 2011, Budapest) organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Hungarian Presidency. The profile of the participants for the PCP event is 250 key decision makers from Member State ministries, CEOs of procurement agencies, industry and the EU Commission.

PreCo-project is participating in the organization of the two break out sessions on 1. ICT for Healthcare and Aging Well  and 2. ICT for Sustainability ( Energy / Environment).

Demand and user-driven innovation Policy in Finland 2010: Framework and Action Plan

Suzan Ikävalko
Posted by suzanikavalko 1 year, 3 months ago Category: News

Action plan (part 2) page 76 chapter 3.2. “Promoting innovation by means of public procurement” includes ideas on how to promote  pre-commercial procurement.

http://www.tem.fi/files/27547/Framework_and_Action_Plan.pdf

Study: Finland has good preconditions for creating lead markets

Suzan Ikävalko
Posted by suzanikavalko 1 year, 3 months ago Category: News

The Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy and Tekes have studied the exploitation of the European Union’s Lead Market Initiative in the development of innovative products and services in Finland. According to the study, from the Finnish perspective possible lead market ares include electronic health care and welfare services for citizens, and wood-based biodiesel.

http://www.tem.fi/?89518_m=100631&l=en&s=2470

ePractice workshop: “Procurement of eHealth solutions”, Brussels 7.10.2010

Suzan Ikävalko
Posted by suzanikavalko 1 year, 3 months ago Category: Events, News, WP2 - eHealth

The European Commission DG INFSO eHealth unit workshop programme

http://www.epractice.eu/en/workshops/ehealth

with presentations from two PreCo -partners Suzan Ikävalko http://www.epractice.eu/files/E-health%20procurement%20-%20Suzan%20Ikavalko.pdf

and Max Rolfstam http://www.epractice.eu/files/13%20-%20Rolfstam_ehealthsol_bru_2010.ppt

 Any comments mostly wellcome!

Smart Personal Health, workshop on “Procuring personal health systems”, 17th June 2010 in Belfast

Suzan Ikävalko
Posted by suzanikavalko 1 year, 6 months ago Category: News, WP2 - eHealth

A background paper on how to advance integrated and personal patient care through procurement taking into accout issues such as interoperability. Procurers have to consider requirements of and benefits for a wide range of stakeholders; patients, clinicians, administration, insurance companies and the authorities.  Procurers can play a key role in driving market development towards standards based interoperability and deployment of more innovative eHealth solutions.

Can Pre-Commercial Public Procurement (PCP) address these questions in a more innovative, cost-effective  and end-user friendly way? Please provide input and share your experience  with us on this subject.

SPH_Background Paper_WS_Belfast

Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) for procuring R&D in the US, the UK and the Netherlands

Suzan Ikävalko
Posted by suzanikavalko 1 year, 6 months ago Category: News, Reports and documents

Two interesting documents on SBIR:

1. A NESTA research report (June 2010) looking at issues such as :

- the origins and growth of SBRI in the US and the UK.

- Is SBRI the answear for boosting demand for innovation in the UK ?

- Benefits for the public sector and the small businesses.

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2. Public Innovation Procurement in the Netherlands

- SBIR Dutch programme: a pioneer experience

2010-06-15_SBIR informative note (EN)

Conference on Health Economics in Copenhagen 14 April 2010

Riikka Ikonen
Posted by riikkaikonen 1 year, 8 months ago Category: Events, News, WP2 - eHealth

A paper on pre-commercial procurement presented at the conference on Health Economics in Copenhagen organised by Danish Institute for Health Services Research

Max Rolfstam: Public Procurement of Innovation and Health in Denmark Max_ Rolfstam_2010