Green Procurement
and Eco-Innovation
Rod Gilchrist
Opportunity Peterborough
Peterborough:
• Population of 180,000
• 6,000 businesses in Greater Peterborough
• Home to the UK’s Environment Capital
Eco-Innovation
Eco-Innovation is defined as eco-innovative
products, techniques, services or
processes which aim at the prevention or
the reduction of environmental impacts or
which contribute to the optimal use of
resources.
Source: European Commission (2011)
Eco-Innovation Drivers
• Resource efficiency (to save money or other reasons)
• Policy decisions (e.g. Carbon Reduction Commitment)
• Internal decisions (e.g. Environmental Management Systems)
• Need/Want to improve or protect the natural environment
• Improve health and wellbeing
• Avoid fines for pollution
• Increasingly profitable area for businesses
The UK Opportunity
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£107 billion
55,000 companies
880,000 employees
5% year-on-year growth to 2017
Strong track record in innovation activities
5th biggest innovator in EU
8th for eco-innovation in EU
4 of world’s top 6 Universities
EnviroCluster Peterborough
• 350 environment sector businesses
– Engineering and precision manufacturing;
specialised in energy generation, water and
waste management, environmental services
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World-class Universities
Wide support infrastructure
£590m annual turnover
5,800 employees
What is a cluster?
A business cluster is a geographical
concentration of interconnected businesses,
suppliers, and associated institutions in a
particular field.
Clusters increase
innovation and economic
activity. Companies
become more competitive
nationally and globally.
The Innovation Engine
Challenge Pool
Supply Chain,
Entrepreneurs
& Students
Challenge Loop
Innovation
Network
Innovation Pool
Innovation Loop
Tools &
Brokerage
End-Users
Incubation
Demonstrator
Commercialisation
Loop
The Innovation Engine
Living Data
A collaborative network that creates novel solutions to global
challenges through open innovation, incubation and engagement with
end-users, entrepreneurs and the supply chain. The solutions will
create economic, social and environmental benefits:
•Solve challenges
•Develop new products, processes & services
•Create new start-ups and business activity
•Smarter procurement
•Jobs created/safeguarded
•Inward investment
•Awareness raising of companies
Challenge Loop
Skills
Skills
Challenge Pool
Supply Chain,
Entrepreneurs
& Students
To ensure that
challenges are
accurately matched to
solutions providers,
“innovation tags” need to
be used.
A library and showcase of challenges
Aim: To foster collaboration between entrepreneurs,
supply chain companies and end users to generate new
solutions and broker relationships.
Innovation
Network
•Creation of focus/special interest groups
Aim: Engagement with end-users to identify marketdriven / end-user driven innovation.
•Collaboration events
•Innovation portal where new ideas and challenges can be
submitted
•Members are notified when challenges matching their
‘innovation tags’ are found
Innovation Pool
Tools &
Brokerage
A library and showcase of innovations
Innovation Loop
•Consultancy with end-users
•Toolkits to be used by end-users
•Events with end-users
End-Users
•Manage flow of ideas back to end-users and challenge
originator
•Idea generation (scouting, R&D training, student
networking)
•UCP, PRC, Young Lives etc.
•Provide commercialisation support to businesses
Incubation
•Deliver consultancy services to end-users
•B2B matchmaking
•Pre-incubation (due-diligence)
•Sustainability toolkits ensuring sustainable procurement
•Selection (business planning, selection committee, IP)
•Incubation (facilities, financing, tutoring/coaching,
monitoring)
Commercialisation
Loop
•Exit
toand
‘landing
hub’)
Aim: (sell/buy,
Solutionsmovement
are tested
demonstrated
in a live
environment to prove solutions work and to show
investors.
•Manage test-bed environment
•Broker relationships with end-users
Demonstrator
City Metabolism
Living Data
Aim: To link end-users with innovative solutions.
Aim: To help nurture the development of new start-ups
and solutions to the point of commercialisation.
The Hive
Challenge
Challenge
Pool
Pool
Businesses,
Universities,
Innovators,
Students,
Citizens
Innovation
Innovation
Network
Network
Smarter
Environments
Innovation
Tools
&
Engine
Brokerage
(facilitation,
tools,
brokerage)
Innovation
Innovation
Pool
Pool
Demonstrator
Demonstrator
Incubator
Incubation
Public
Bodies,
End-Users
EnviroCluster Retrofit Project
• £170,000 pilot project funded by Technology Strategy Board.
• Installed technologies hope to demonstrate an 87% cut in energy use.
• Comprehensive retrofit achieved with tenant in-situ.
Examples
• 2012 Olympics and Legacy
• Green Procurement in London
• www.greenprocurement.co.uk
Rod Gilchrist
Opportunity Peterborough, Stuart House, Ground Floor, Zone 5,
St John’s Street Peterborough PE1 5DD Tel 00 44 1733 317417
rod.gilchrist@opportunitypeterborough.co.uk