Public procurement accounts for about 14% of the European Union’s (EU) gross

domestic product - meaning it has enormous potential to guide new developments

in a range of sectors, help to stimulate future markets and address key societal

challenges. And public authorities who support the process of innovation or

purchase innovative goods and services are often directly rewarded with improved

services at optimised costs.

Procure2Innovate aims to improve institutional support for public procurers

implementing innovation procurement in a range of sectors. It will do this by both

establishing new innovation procurement competence centres, and enlarging the

scope of support offered by existing competence centres in 10 European countries.