Procurement for Innovation: Developing a Framework for Continuous Innovation Diffusion and Knowledge Transfer through Integrative Procurement Systems

在新的情况或环境中有效和高效地管理过程的新技术和新方法属于创新的范畴。由于各种原因，事实证明，在现有合同安排下，采用这些创新具有挑战性。这些问题包括一些行业参与者之间的敌对关系，例如建筑业；复杂的合同关系阻碍了有关各方之间创新的自然发展，例如传统的合同安排；供应链组织中使用的程序的碎片化、不稳定和瓦解。已经进行了一些尝试，通过其ProCure21方案推动在卫生服务和国防部门通过其SMART采购倡议采用创新。这两种方法都基于这样一种想法，即创新采用可以通过使用合作伙伴来实现。但是，还需要开展更多的工作，为现有的各种综合采购系统制定一种积极、系统和有条理的办法，其中还将纳入以关键成功因素和关键业绩指标形式的业绩衡量办法。公私伙伴关系、私营部门融资和主承包等综合采购办法有可能克服项目交付中分散的问题，这些问题是在项目环境中有效分享知识和交流新技术和想法的主要障碍。这些类型的集成供应链有可能通过主要基于流程和产品的专业创新而不是传统采购系统的短期成本效率来鼓励竞争而使行业受益。为了克服上述问题，本研究提出了一个框架，具有开发、吸收和利用知识的能力，通过评估集成采购系统的有效性来实现项目内和项目之间的持续创新扩散。拟议的研究旨在为项目环境中的创新和知识共享建立绩效衡量标准和成功因素。此外，它打算分析和调查供应链内的沟通渠道，以促进知识的流动和采用创新。

New technologies and novel ways of managing processes effectively and efficiently in new situations or environments come under the umbrella of innovations. The adoption of these innovations is proving challenging under existing contractual arrangements for various reasons. These include the adversarial relations between participants in some industries, e.g. construction; complex contractual relationships that hinder natural progression of innovations between parties involved, e.g. traditional contracting arrangements; and the fragmentation, instability and disintegration of procedures used in the organisation of a supply chain.A number of attempts have been made to drive through the adoption of innovation in the health service through its ProCure21 programme and also in the defence sector through its SMART Procurement initiative. Both approaches are based on the thinking that innovation adoption could be achieved through the use of partnering. However, more work needs to be conducted to develop a proactive, systematic and structured approach for the range of Integrated Procurement Systems (IPS) available which would also incorporate performance measures in the form of critical success factors and key performance indicators.Integrated procurement approaches such as PPP, PFI and prime contracting have the potential to overcome the problems of fragmentation in project delivery which are prime barriers to effective knowledge sharing and flow of new technologies and ideas in project environments. These types of integrated supply chains have the prospect of benefiting industry by encouraging competition primarily on the basis of expertise innovation in processes and products rather than on the basis of short-term cost efficiency only as it has been the case through traditional procurement systems.To overcome the problems identified above, this research proposes a framework with a capacity to develop, absorb and exploit knowledge to enable continuous innovation diffusion within and between projects by evaluating the effectiveness of integrative procurement systems. The proposed research seeks to establish performance measures and success factors for innovation and knowledge sharing in projects' environments. Furthermore, it intends to analyse and investigate communication channels within supply chains to enable the flow of knowledge and the adoption of innovations.