The government recently conducted a consultation on their Green Paper for ‘Transforming Public Procurement’. Connected Places Catapult have compiled a response in partnership with our academic collaborators at the University of Birmingham (City REDI) and the University of Manchester (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research), bringing… Read More
Pioneering place leaders are often not harnessing the creativity and innovation procurement opportunities of the market to solve their pressing service and policy challenges because the public procurement policy doesn’t allow it. That’s why Connected Places Catapult is engaged with experts and representative bodies from across the public… Read More
Ask pioneering place leaders why they are not harnessing the creativity and innovation opportunities of the market to solve their pressing service and policy challenges and you will often get the response: “Procurement policy doesn’t allow it”. In early 2019 we launched the Challenging Procurement initiative to understand and dismantle barriers to… Read More
Our mission at Connected Places Catapult is to drive UK leadership to meet Net Zero targets, promoting sustained economic growth and wellbeing through integrated, efficient and sustainable technologies with a seamless approach. At Connected Places Catapult, we use our market-neutral position and domain expertise in the user-led and built-environment research… Read More
“Governments and their public sector organisations operate in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous contexts and must contend with a variety of challenges, such as digital transformation, energy poverty, environmental degradation, climate change and inequality… In such a context, it cannot be assumed that existing structures, processes and interventions remain… Read More
The discussion brought three critical issues to the fore: Covid-19 and the re-distribution of city innovation Covid-19 is shaking up the geography of innovation both within cities and between them. The pandemic also has demonstrated that different cities become resilient in different ways, depending on their urban form, industry mix,… Read More
The Innovation Radar identifies high-potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and innovation framework programmes. This initiative from the European Commission has highlighted Sharing Cities and SynchroniCity as shining examples of this. The Sharing Cities’ Digital Social Market The Sharing Cities project… Read More
The art of successful urban planning should always be underpinned by local context, but in practice it tends to be constrained by a stifling uniformity across England’s many distinct localities. The recent emergence of PlanTech however has demonstrated how key challenges can be addressed and transformed with better use of technology… Read More
The COVID 19 crisis has amplified the need for innovative solutions and governments are responding by deploying public procurement tools. We have partnered with FCO Brazil to conduct a report on the benefits of Innovation Procurement to boost innovation and ensure value for money. Using Procurement to Innovate Different levels of… Read More
Emergency initiatives to address the COVID 19 crisis are dramatically demonstrating the value of public procurement in accelerating and deploying innovation. Legislation is often cited as a barrier to innovation. However, legal constraints do not appear to have inhibited COVID 19 responses. Indeed, rule makers in the UK and… Read More