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PPI 2011

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

If you have any enquiries about your registration or any other conference issue please contact us:

email: PPI2011Turin@comune.torino.it
phone numbers:: +39-011 44 25951/25955/25983
for further information please contact Elena Deambrogio, City of Torino elena.deambrogio@comune.torino.it

On this webpage you can find all information about the conference, the venue and accomodation.

Vice President Tajani Invitation letter | PDF (132 Kb)

The updated Draft Agenda is available here | PDF (156 Kb)

Conference documents

Videos of the conference are available at: www.wipietv.eu/2011/07/public-procurement-of-innovation/

You will find interviews here: www.youtube.com/user/wipieregionepiemonte

THE CONTEXT

Following Aho's report (2006) the Lead Market Initiative started in 2008 and as recently proposed by the European 2020 strategy within the "Innovation Union" flagship , new European policy orientation for innovation is more and more involving demand side measures where public procurement of innovation plays a central role.

Indeed, public procurement accounts for 19,4% of EU27 GDP (2.200 trillion euro/year in 2009). But little of this goes to innovative products and services which is a huge missed opportunity for innovative businesses and for better (and more cost effective) public services.

Main barriers are:

Wrong incentives, where procurers favour low cost, low risk, "off the shelf" solutions even when there are longer term and spill over benefits to procuring innovations.
Lack of knowledge and capabilities on technologies, innovations, market developments– in particular outside the home region/ countries.
No strategy that aligns public procurements with public policy objectives (e.g. health, environment,, transport), and with R&D&I support programmes.
Fragmentation in demand with individual procurements too small for companies to make innovative investments, and no pooling of risk and resources across countries.

As stated in Innovation Union, Member States and regions are then invited to set aside dedicated budgets for pre-commercial procurements (PCP) and public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI). Similarly, the European Industrial Policy flagship | (PDF) proposes actions in standardisation, legislation and public procurement to boost sector-specific innovation performance in sectors; e.g. construction, security industry, space, KETs, and bio-based products.

Therefore, meanwhile consulting European stakeholders with the DG Internal Market Green paper on "on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy" the Commission intends to provide guidance and to set up a financial support mechanism to help contracting authorities to implement these procurements of innovation in a non-discriminatory and open manner, to pool demand to better face societal challenges, to draw up common specifications and to promote SME access.

To prepare the path for the future, public procurement networks have been launched in 2009 under the Lead Market Initiative, where city of Turin is one of the partners of the SCI-NETWORK (Sustainable Construction & Innovation through Procurement). These networks were the first attempt to encourage public procurement of innovation until the stage of common specifications.

In 2011, DG Enterprise intends to launch new networks of public procurers that will financially support the realization of procurement of innovation: a call of 15 M euro will be launched under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme. This action will be complemented by some highly relevant initiatives carried out in parallel by other DGs such as: calls for proposals of DG INFSO under the 7th Research Framework Programme to support Pre-Commercial Procurement; a call for proposals of DG ENV on green public/private procurement networks; or the assessment of the procurement directives and development of guidance on joint procurement by DG MARKT.

Useful links

THE EVENT

This European conference hosted by the City of Torino and the Piemonte Region, under the patronage of the Vice President of the European Commission, Antonio Tajani, and organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Development, the Province of Turin and Turin Chamber of Commerce, will cover all these new developments of demand-side innovation policies and make publicity on this forthcoming call for proposals.

It will also be an opportunity for public authorities to confront on existing best-practices in "Procuring Innovation" and to know more about the future funding schemes, with a special regard to next EU Structural funds financial period.

Articulation:

The first day of the PPI conference (27th June - from 9.30 a.m to 6 p.m; a buffet dinner will be provided at 7 p.m.) will consist into an high level institutional event, including:

an introductory panel on the new European Commission innovation policy trends;
the launch of the Call for proposal on Public Procurement of Innovation under the CIP programme;
an High-level political round table on the issue of "Innovation purse within Europe 2020 strategy";
a final confrontation on future perspectives in innovation procurement, with a special regard to post the post 2013 period.

The second day (28th june - from 9 a.m. to 4.30 pm) will be dedicated to sharing experiences on PPI among public authorities and to stimulating networking among innovation actors at European level. It will consist of:

a first session aimed at presenting strategic policy framework settled up at national and regional level;
a second session dedicated to best practices of PPI carried out at local level, with a special regard to the city perspective;
a focus on main legal, economic and governance related aspects to take into account into the design of the procurement procedure for R&D services and for innovative solutions;
parallel topical break-out sessions aimed at stimulating targeted confrontation on innovation procurement in specific sectors (sustainable construction, Mobility and Health) and at triggering networking among participants.

Participants:

participation of members of the European Parliament, the Enterprise Europe Network, DG Enterprise and Industry, DG Research and Innovation, DG Internal Market and Services, DG Information Society and Media, DG Regional Policy, DG Mobility and Transport, the Lead Market Initiative's Public Procurement Networks, innovation agencies (regional and national), academics, experts, innovation stakeholders.

Targeted audience:

public procurers, European/ national/ regional and local policy makers, SMEs representatives.

Place and venue:

Torino, Environment Park, Via Livorno 58.