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流程的新技术和新方法属于创新的范畴。由于各种原因，在现有的合同安排下采用这些创新是具有挑战性的。这包括某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相关各方之间创新的自然发展，例如传统的合同安排；以及供应链组织中使用的程序的碎片化、不稳定和解体。已作出若干努力，通过其《21世纪采购方案》在保健服务领域推动采用创新，并通过其《智能采购倡议》在国防部门推动采用创新。这两种方法都基于这样一种思想，即创新的采用可以通过使用伙伴关系来实现。但是，需要进行更多的工作，为现有的各种综合采购系统制定一种积极主动、有系统和有结构的办法，这些办法也将以关键成功因素和关键业绩指标的形式纳入业绩措施。PPP、PFI和主承包等综合采购方法有可能克服项目交付中的碎片化问题，这些问题是项目环境中有效知识共享和新技术和想法流动的主要障碍。这些类型的集成供应链通过鼓励主要基于工艺和产品的专业知识创新的竞争，而不是像传统采购系统那样仅基于短期成本效率，从而有可能使行业受益。为了克服上述问题，本研究提出了一个框架，该框架具有发展、吸收和利用知识的能力，通过评估综合采购系统的有效性，使项目内部和项目之间能够不断地传播创新。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和成功因素。此外，它打算分析和调查供应链中的沟通渠道，以实现知识的流动和创新的采用。

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.