Do you know the difference between public procurement for innovation vs. public procurement of innovation vs. innovation public procurement? If not, join our webinar and learn more!
On Monday 14.02.2022 from 10:00 to 12:00 CET, ELCA European Lighting Cluster Alliance and EXTRA LIGHT consortium is organizing the WEBINAR on “How is the public sector modernizing public procurement in Europe, supporting innovation, green and social goals?”
REGISTER HERE: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L_1TOWvhRh61mqxgMTZHZA
This is the first online capacity-building workshop that the EXTRA LIGHT project offers to all interested cluster managers and their SMEs to learn more about different typologies and concepts of public procurement at the EU level and understand better key instruments and schema addressing innovation.

The webinar is open to all cluster organizations and interested SMEs!

Main webinar topics:
1. Key definitions and concepts:
• Public procurement vs. subsidies
• Public procurement of goods vs. procurement of (commercial or R&D) services
• Public procurement for innovation vs. public procurement of innovation
• (Applied) research and development vs. incremental innovation
• Innovation public procurement vs. innovative public procurement
• Sustainable public procurement vs. green public procurement vs. circular procurement
2. Key instruments and schema addressing innovation (legal framework and empirical evidence about results and market impacts):
• Pre-commercial public procurement vs. traditional procurement of R&D services
• Public procurement of innovative solutions vs. public procurement of commercial solutions
• Innovation partnership vs. separation of R&D procurement from the deployment of commercial volumes of end-products/services