The resource is the web page of the European Commission on Pre-Commercial Public Procurement. This is the UE definition: “PCP enables public procurers to compare alternative potential solution approaches and filter out the best possible solutions that the market can deliver to address the public need. Public procurers can drive innovation from the demand side by acting as technologically demanding customers that buy the development and testing of new solutions.” Apart from IPR issues, PCPs produce benefits such as developing innovative solutions for the societal challenges of the future; facilitate the access of new innovative players to the public procurement market; share the risks and benefits of designing, prototyping, and testing new products and services between procurers and suppliers; improving the conditions for wider commercialisation and take-up of R&D results. PCP might be followed by the adoption of the Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI). “Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) happens when the public sector uses its purchasing power to act as early adopter of innovative solutions which are not yet available on large scale commercial basis”.
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