Earlier this year, Menon published a comprehensive report on incentives/schemes for risk relief for innovative public procurement. The project was conducted on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries. The study reviews the political mechanisms currently used to promote innovation through public procurement in Norway, evaluates the public innovation system as a whole, and recommends new mechanisms to promote innovation through public procurement, both public procurement of innovation and public procurement for (increased) innovation in the public sector. The recommended mechanisms are based on the current system in Norway, and systematic research on several key countries’ innovation policies in addition to leading theory on innovation and innovation through public procurement.

An English summary of the report is now available.