90% innovation – 10% procurement
Demand Acceleration is a framework for how the public sector can drive innovation and transformation using public procurement as a tool, by increasing demand for sustainable solutions.
Stimulating innovation and transition requires not only investment in new technologies, i.e. more supply, but also an increase in demand for new sustainable solutions, across society, for new technologies to be used and create value. Innovation is not only limited by supply, but also by demand.
The Demand Acceleration Community is an open learning network for public demand owners and intermediaries interested in jointly exploring how public business can drive innovation and transformation. We meet every third Friday morning to discuss and exchange experiences, using the Demand Acceleration framework as a starting point.
Our community is characterised by openness, and we believe in a balance between competition and collaboration. We share useful materials, such as presentations, process documents and tender documents, with each other, and materials created by members of the community are generally licensed under Creative Commons.
Public procurement has an annual turnover of over SEK 900 billion in Sweden alone. If just one per cent could be used to drive innovation and transformation, it would be more than double Vinnova’s entire current budget.
In the 2022 national procurement survey, only 11 per cent of municipalities stated that they work to a great extent to procure innovative solutions.
The Demand Acceleration framework contains four core values and four fundamental principles.
Here you will find our handbooks, which provide a more detailed description of how the framework can be applied in practice. In addition, there is a shorter version, which provides a basis for understanding Demand Acceleration from a policy perspective.
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Lina Svensberg, Jakob LindvallDeveloped within the UNECE Transformative Innovation Network (ETIN), October 2025
This draft policy paper summarises key outcomes from the 2024 ETIN workstream on Innovation-Enhancing Procurement (IEP), exploring how public procurement can act as a strategic lever for transformative innovation. It highlights the importance of leadership, adaptive learning, and intermediary ecosystems in enabling public organisations to use procurement as a mission-oriented tool for societal change, and outlines next steps toward capacity-building and policy development within the ETIN community.
Co-contributors and IEP Task Force members include Bianca Cavicchi (European Commission), Kjell-Håkan Närfelt (Vinnova), Bunyod Rakhmatullaev (National Office for Innovation Implementation and Technology Transfer of Uzbekistan), Anita Skog (Arctic Pioneers), Annie Vashakmadze (GITA), Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia (Deusto University).
Lina Svensberg, Kjell Håkan NärfeltPublished 10 February 2025
How can we unlock the power of public sector demand to drive transformation? Or, in other words, how do we awaken “the sleeping giant of innovation policy”? In this paper, Lina Svensberg and Kjell Håkan Närfelt introduce a new perspective on innovation procurement and share key insights from experimenting with this perspective in practice.
Lina SvensbergPublished 31 January 2025
What would happen if all procurement became innovation-friendly, and all public sector innovation processes procurement-friendly? In this article, Lina Svensberg, Innovation Manager at DigitalWell Arena, explores and analyses the terminology at the intersection of innovation and procurement.
Article: Innovation procurement – reflections on definitions, strategic objectives and approaches
The VagueguidePublished 18 June 2024
The City of Helsingborg, RecoLab and the Compare Foundation have, with funding from Vinnova, conducted a feasibility study exploring how to stimulate circularity of wastewater as a resource and demand as a driving force in a value network that includes both public and private actors.
Lina Svensberg, Jakob Trischler, Jonas Matthing, Leonard Kelleher, Erik Wästlund, Karin BrodénPresented at EU-SPRI 7 June 2024
In this paper, we tested the proposition that incorporation of a venture logic into the public procurement process could increase the chances of uptake beyond the initial customer, and thereby increase the potential of IEP for transformative innovation.
#127 – Procurement + innovation = the solution to our biggest challenges? With Lina Svensberg
#15 – Procurement of innovationKarlstad municipality starts from the needs and lets the market find the solutions in elderly care
Digital innovationDigitalWell Arena and Compare, with Jonas Matthing and Lina Svensberg from Compare (Swe)
Health Policy ForumPublished 25 January 2024
Health Policy ForumPublished 14 March 2024
Internet of Things SwedenPublished 21 March 2023
Theme Story NewsPublished 21 March 2023
Forum for Health PolicyPublished 26 October 2023
International interest in how public procurement can drive innovation is growing. Lina Svensberg, Innovation Manager at DigitalWell Arena, was recently invited to be a keynote…
Can public procurement become a greater driver of innovation? With the support of Demand Acceleration, the answer is becoming clear. The first service developed using…
Open City reaches new users! The digital guide for people with cognitive challenges will soon be available in Trollhättan too.
Jakob Lindvalljakob@aldab.se+46 (0)70 825 90 10
Services: Process management, training, strategy and business development
Marie-Louise Erikssonhello@mlimpact.se+46 (0)70 928 20 72
Services: Process management, training
Carolin Maulecarolin.maule@compare.se+46 (0)73 055 57 15.
Services: Process management, training, mentoring, strategy
Per Danielssonper.danielsson@me.com+46 (0)70 307 24 18
Services: Legal advice, procurement consultancy
Niklas Tideklevniklas.tideklev@dialogmakarna.se+46 (0)73 925 49 60
Services: Legal advice, process management, training, procurement consultancy
Katarina Chowrakatarina.chowra@maplebloom.com+46 (0)70 63 58 680
Services: Process management
Mikaela Färnqvist, Lucas Uhlénmikaela.farnqvist@kista.com+46 (0)731 58 3508lucas.uhlen@kista.com+46 (0)708- 55 55 62
Hanna Wallinhanna.wallin@broninnovation.se+46 (0)76 022 41 92
Anna-Maria Mårtenssonanna_maria_martensson@hh.se+46 (0)72 977 37 21
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