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Governments’ procurement approach fails to serve Canada’s innovation economy: CCI report

Mark Lowey
April 10, 2024

The current culture of federal and provincial government procurement fails to serve the Canadian economy or the governments’ own purposes, according to a report by the Council of Canadian Innovators.

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Organizations:	American National Academy of Sciences, Auditor General of Canada, Business Finland, Council of Canadian Innovators, Digital Governance Council, European Union, Government of Canada, Government of the U.K., U.S. government, and United Nations
People:	Abu Kamat, Benjamin Bergen, and Laurent Carbonneau
Topics:	“Agile and Open Procurement of Digital Solutions” standard, “Buying Ideas: Procuring Public Sector Innovation in Canada" (report), 2017 Skills and Innovation Plan, B.C.'s Procurement Concierge Program, Canada's cybersecurity sector, Canada's supply side science and innovation policy, Canadian business spending on R&D, Canadian government's approach to procurement, Canadian surface ship program, cumbersome procurement process, DND Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program, federal government IT procurement spending, federal procurement concierge, Finland's Innovative Public Procurement program, government procurement target for SMEs, governments' "waterfall" approach to procurement, high-growth Canadian firms, Innovative Solutions Canada, IP in the commercialization process, lack of in-house technical capacity in public service, limited opportunities in government upskilling programs, management software projects, national procurement agency, Phoenix federal payroll system, problems with defence and digital procurement, procurement approach missing path to commercialization, procurement as a percentage of Canada's GDP, procurement to support Canada's innovation economy, risk-adverse government culture, state of mission-critical government digital applications, U. K.'s Forward Commitment Procurement (FCP) model, U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, and United Nations’ E-Government Development Index

Governments’ procurement approach fails to serve Canada’s innovation economy: CCI report

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