Domestic Missions Pilot aims objectives and delivery Kevin
Domestic Missions Pilot: aims, objectives and delivery Kevin O’Malley Innovation Lead/ SBRI Lead Innovate UK
Background • • Recent attempts to catalyse and grow a mainstream public sector market for Advanced Urban Services have stalled at the pilot/ demonstrator stage Some of the reasons for this have been • a lack of alignment between the challenges prioritised by city authorities and the innovation sector’s understanding of those challenges • and translation of these challenges into relevant, deployable products and services • the fragmented nature of the local government Advanced Urban Services marketplace • the complexity, expense and risk associated with procuring Advanced Urban Services at scale • a lack of clearly articulated and understood business cases for investment in Advanced Urban Services and associated infrastructure • dedicated options for procuring innovation not well understood or utilised (ie SBRI, Spark DPS)
Global Missions • • • Through the Global Business Innovation Programme Innovate UK helps high-growth UK businesses prepare for and attend overseas missions in order to explore and exploit innovation growth opportunities. The Programme works by; • helping businesses get ready for the market • visiting the market on an innovation mission, where businesses can gain understanding and build, strengthen and exploit connections with peers, investors, government and the research community • exploiting the opportunity, including ongoing support after the mission to make the most of it With this work Innovate UK is initiating a pilot programme of curated Domestic Missions, replicating the success of the Global Business Innovation Programme by introducing leading businesses to public sector challenge owners across UK cities
Domestic Mission Vision Catalyse and grow a market for Advanced Urban Services built around city collaborations, creative, strategic procurement and increased understanding between public authorities and innovative businesses
Mission Benefits • De-risking the procurement of Advanced Urban Services- collaboration shares resources, costs, knowledge, risks etc. • Replicating workable solutions- whether through frameworks or regional collaborative procurement, creating interoperable systems and increasing the portability of data and systems between authorities • Increased clarity for all Authorities around options, benefits, costs and savings associated with deploying particular Advanced Urban Services, including IPR, State Aid and operational issues • Clarifying City Challenges for Innovative Businesses- deepening the understanding of urban challenges and clarifying the prioritisation, components and stakeholders for businesses developing solutions
Domestic Mission Pilot Objectives Understand which mechanisms work most effectively to; • Catalyse public sector uptake of effective innovative urban services to address priority challenges • Raise awareness and understanding (amongst businesses and LAs) of appropriate and efficient • • procurement routes for adopting Advanced Urban Services Encourage clusters and collaborative procurement as, in most cases, one city is not a market Encourage collaboration amongst innovators to enhance and refine offers, and/or bid for more substantial procurements Introduce City decision makers to key emerging technologies, building understanding of the Advanced Urban Services landscape and the potential of these innovative technologies to tackle defined urban challenges Help innovators better understand how city authorities work, and to see the key urban challenges from the perspective of city authorities Support UK businesses in developing and tailoring their presentation and approach to be appropriate for local authority customers Demonstrate the benefit in recognising and employing shared standards in public sector urban innovation Promote stronger partnerships and alliances between cities and suppliers of Advanced Urban Services, and collaborations between cities and between suppliers which deliver better outcomes across the board
Pilot Programme • • • Timescale: Sept 19 to April 20 5 Pilot Cities: Bristol, Nottingham, Exeter, Derry, Cardiff Programme Activities • Crowd insights: Bring together all participating pilot cities, and supporting experts, on an online platform (the Crowd) to share, discuss and prioritise 2 or 3 key urban challenges each. Partnerships may form around challenges, and intelligence shared around experiences working with SME innovators • Challenge design: Insights from the Crowd are brought into an online workshop where city challenges are selected, designed and articulated appropriately for the programme. • Call for SMEs: The challenges are promoted to SMEs in a competition to select who will attend the Mission event. • SME selection & preparation: SMEs are selected by independent experts and prepared by the programme to engage in the Mission day in the right spirit and achieve as much benefit as possible • Mission Event design: Each City Mission day will be co-designed by the programme team and the authority. The Mission Event is not a pitching event but; • It is an opportunity for businesses to better understand urban challenges, authorities to better • understand the potential of emerging technologies, and for collaborations to develop between all participants. As a result of these dialogues existing solutions might be adopted, or refined for adoption, but the principle is to start with the challenge not the technology The Mission day will include presentations from experts in developing business cases/ accessing funding for innovation, procurement, emerging technologies and digital/ data standards.
Time Frame November Crowd insight gathering Challenge design Call for SMEs SME selection SME preparation Mission programme design Mission events December January February March
Evaluation of the Pilot • The evaluation process employed during this exercise will look to uncover the most effective ways to; • build dialogue and understanding between Cities and innovative businesses focused on the challenges faced and the innovative solutions that might be brought to bear • develop this dialogue into meaningful commercial partnerships between Cities and business to resolve pressing urban challenges • encourage partnership between City authorities in structuring collaborative procurements of Advanced Urban Services, which increase the appeal to the market and reduce the relative cost of the exercise • encourage partnerships between innovative businesses to refine and enhance existing solutions to better fit the requirements of City authorities • We also look to reveal and communicate what techniques, methods, interventions and support mechanisms work most effectively in achieving this and look to apply these to a larger, mainstream Domestic Missions in the future, and if possible associate this with funding to support delivery of projects
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