Public Procurement of Innovations | |
| Dates: | From 13/10/2009 to 13/10/2009 |
| location : | Nalen Stockholm |
| address: | Stockholm Sweden |
| The conference will discuss and illustrate Public Procurement of Innovations, PPI, within the Life Science sector. The aim is also to inform about the possibilities with PPI and show a more advantageous way to make use of public means. The public sector in the EU, as elsewhere in the world, is faced with important societal challenges. These include ensuring high-quality affordable healthcare to cope with the impacts of an ageing population, the fight against climate change, improving energy efficiency, ensuring higher quality and better access to education, and being more effective dealing with security threats. Addressing such challenges can require new and better solutions. Some of the required improvements are so technologically demanding that either no commercially stable solution exists yet on the market, or existing solutions exhibit shortcomings which require new R&D. By developing forward-looking procurement strategies that include R&D procurement to develop new solutions that address these challenges, the public sector can have a significant impact on the mid to long term efficiency and effectiveness of public services, as well as on the innovation performance and the competitiveness of European industry. | |
| contact : | Mats Jarekrans |
| more information : | http://www.vinnova.se/misc/Anmalningsformular/Public-Procurement-of-Innovation-/ |
| download the event programme: | event_282.pdf (32.1kb) |
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