Antonio Fernando Correia de Campos, MEP, Member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Member of the K4I Forum of the European Parliament Governing Board
"There are two main tools: A pre-commercial procurement, which is procurement of R&D services to develop innovative services, and innovative procurement, which is the deployment of already existing innovative technologies or know-how programmes."
Speakers
Ulf Dahlsten, Principal Adviser, DG InfSo, European Commission
“Collaboration between different institutional partners and the public and private sector is very important and it is about reinventing what used to be called ‘privileged partnerships’.”
“To be a winner it is not enough to put money on world class research but we need to put the results in the market. The winners are those that are first in the market.”
Bertrand Wert, Policy Development for Industrial Innovation, DG ENTR, European Commission
“We need to incentivise procurers to realise concrete procurement, besides their role in creating consortiums, which is very important.”
Heide Rühle, MEP, Member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
“There is a full support for innovation and sustainability but in reality there is a lot of bureaucracy.”
“There is too much focus on how to procure rather then what to procure.”
“E-procurement is one of the best ways for simplifying procurement. We need a European framework on E-procurement.”
Sinan Tumer, Head of International Research Policy, SAP Research
“In order to stimulate innovation in public procurement environment, the intellectual property must be retained by the suppliers; otherwise there will be
no incentive.”
Marieke van Putten, Project Manager Public Procurement of Innovation, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation
“We have many options in the European directive that have not been used.”
The introductions were followed by a discussion with the participants.