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Aligning ProcurCompEU Competencies with Healthcare Innovation and Procurement of Innovation Challenges: A Systematic Literature Review
Klucar, Samuel (2025) Aligning ProcurCompEU Competencies with Healthcare Innovation and Procurement of Innovation Challenges: A Systematic Literature Review.
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| Abstract: | The future of European healthcare faces a difficult path forward. With ageing populations, increasing healthcare demands, and escalating sustainability issues, the industry is under more pressure than ever to innovate. The healthcare procurement function, as the acquirer of innovation sourcing and implementation, thus faces a strong strategic responsibility to achieve these innovations, remedying these difficulties through increased labour productivity and sustainability. However, due to the stated challenges of rising costs, expenditures, and labour shortages, most healthcare procurement follows a cost-focused approach. This is problematic, as research shows a cost-focused approach negatively correlates with innovation sourcing & implementation. Managing costs and innovations requires innovation competencies, which are further complicated by organisational issues, a lack of R&D funding in healthcare organisations, and limited research on procurement innovation competencies, specifically in the intersection of sustainability, innovation, and healthcare procurement. The ProcurCompEU framework, which was introduced to help professionalise an approach against such challenges in the EU, offers solutions, but only transactionally, meaning sustainable innovation is likely underexplored. This study aims to address this gap, using a systematic literature review to identify and analyse the competencies required for sustainable healthcare innovation. It maps these competencies against the ProcurCompEU framework and evaluates whether they sufficiently address the intersection of healthcare procurement, innovation, and sustainability. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | International Business Administration BSc (50952) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/106903 |
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