Startups and public teams, together in Govtech Bizkaia

Govtech Lab

Based on a proprietary govtech open innovation methodology, we define challenges with public teams, activate the govtech entrepreneurial ecosystem to receive solution proposals from startups, scaleups and digital SMEs, and pilot at least 15 of these solutions. To this end, public policy experts, service designers and scouters (who actively search for the best solutions for each defined challenge).

Solutions are managed in a dedicated space on the Open Gobe open innovation platform.

Some of the themes of the challenges have been the improvement of citizen relations services, digitalization and automation of internal management processes, management of public infrastructures (natural spaces, sports facilities...), among others.

Govtech Academia

During the implementation of the govtech lab, a training offer is developed to complement the practical experience. It is aimed at the teams that own the challenges and has the objective of leaving innovation capabilities in the teams. It has already impacted more than 50 civil servants. Additionally, bootcamps are developed for startups to learn how to work and collaborate with public institutions.

Open work‍

We make all the work developed visible to help develop more innovative solutions and define new challenges. In addition, we propose a new way of communicating innovation from the public sector.

Entrepreneurial Public Procurement‍

New forms of procurement are being explored with the aim of opening competition to startups and digital SMEs. Thanks to the formation of a working group with procurement experts from the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, the figure of the Project Competition (Art. 183 of the Public Sector Contracts Law) will be implemented to pilot an innovative solution and scale up with the same supplier if the pilot is successful.