iBuy

iBuy is a project dedicated to boosting innovation through public procurement. It aims at encouraging public authorities to start acting from the demand side for innovation as it has been conceptualised in the Europe 2020 strategy and the Innovation Union. iBuy aims at developing innovative models suitable to mobilise public and private stakeholders on the basis of the ‘entrepreneurial discovery process’ linked to the research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation in the area of public procurement for innovation, while promoting a European perspective and ensuring the durability and transferability of the achieved results. The main project outputs are:

• 7 complete analyses of policy instruments (including benchmarking and peer reviews);
• the setting-up of an online tool linked to the programme’s platform to support the exchange of information and promote the e-learning process;
• 35 meetings with stakeholders;
• 3 dissemination seminars;
• 8 internal workshops;
• 8 study visits linked to the project learning path, the continuous implication of the EU institution;
• 7 final action plans (including monitoring systems) for the policy instruments’ improvement.