2. 2
CONTEXT
• Economic Crisis:
– high unemployemnt
– cuts in public budgets
– need for economic promotion
• Public Procurement = 17% EU GDP
• Globally, more than 557.000 local governments and city councils
spend an estimated EUR 3,5 trillion per year.
• Just 1% of city governments publish their problems to business
community
• Less than 10% of city governments manage ‘unsolicited proposals’
4. Aims
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AS AN INNOVATION TOOL: To foster business innovation
and to be a benchmark of innovation for other cities (administrations and
companies).
SHORTEN TIME TO MARKET: To enable companies to trial innovative products in
a real place so that if they prove their value they can subsequently be
commercialized on a large scale in Barcelona or in other cities in the world.
BETER SERVICES: To learn and create new products or services that are capable
of offering improvements to the citizens of Barcelona.
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Fostering innovative solutions through URBAN LABS
BARCELONA URBAN LAB is a tool to
provide a space in the city to carry
out tests and pilots on products and
services that have an urban impact
and solve a municipal challenge.
Use the city as an urban laboratory.
5. BENEFITS for...
1. Citizens: More and better products and solutions for better municipal
services.
2. Businesses: Access to demand information. Real-life testing space for easier
market access. Learn, shorten time to market.
3. Science and Technology : It’s a powerful tool for technology transfer, both
locally and internationally.
4. Public administration: Facilitate the introduction of new solutions. Use public
procurement as a tool to foster Innovation. Raise transparency and efficiency.
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WEBSITE
INCOMING PROPOSALS
CHALLENGES
7. • Proposals received:
• 50 pilot proposals through the web
• More than 250 proposals addressing proactive
contests and challenges launched in Barcelona.
• Pilot tested or testing currently: 16 pilots
• Domains: Enviroment, Mobility, Telecom, …
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RESULTS 2008-2013
10. Urban Lab
Challenges in Open
Cities project
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11. OPEN CITIES URBAN LAB CHALLENGE 2012
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CHALLENGE
How to improve energy efficiency in
municipal buildings?
WINNER
"LPW Leaves Performative Walls“:
Reduce the buildings’ energy demand
by means of a clip-on energetic leaves
project which integrates photovoltaic
cells and smog-eater panels.
From JAPA & PGI Engineering
12. Berlin Open Data Day 2013
Challenge
Innovative solutions for
TOURISM CHALLENGES
Winner
Call open until
15th September 2013
www.opencities.net/urban_lab_challenge
OPEN CITIES URBAN LAB CHALLENGE 2013
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TESTIMONIALS
15. BCN|Open Challenge
Barcelona: Open for business, open for innovation.
BCN|Open Challenge is a new programme to open up
the city administration and services to businesses and
entrepreneurs from all around the world delivering
solutions that can transform and improve public
services, create a more inclusive city, accelerate
innovation and leverage public spending more
effectively to deliver better services.
3 Actions :
OPEN CALL FOR SOLUTIONS(6 Challenges)
1 MILLION EURO START FUND
INCENTIVES FOR WINNING COMPANIES
16. THE CHALLENGES
1. To reduce bicycle thefts in the city to a minimum
2. Social care system through mobile devices
3. Monitoring the flow of pedestrians in the city (applicable to flows in cultural
activities, and tourist or commercial flows)
4. To increase the presence of the documentary collections of museums and
archives in Internet: tools for digitisation and crowdsourcing
5. Automatic system of detection and alerts of damaged paving
6. Increasing the competitiveness of commerce of proximity through Technology
17. BARCELONA BRAND
A VALOR ASSET TO THE SERVICE
OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS
ACTIVITY
www.bcnopenchallenge.org
July/September 2013 – February 2014
