As part of its Innovation Union strategy, the European Commission has set a target of there being at least €10 billion allocated around the EU for government agencies to buy innovative products and services. The idea: To harness the purchasing power of the public sector towards stimulating more innovation – the way the US government has done with its DARPA and SBIR programmes.
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