Undertaking of the procurement process in a way that stimulates suppliers to invest in developing better, innovative goods and services to meet the unmet needs and policy objectives of the sector, and/or ensuring the procurement process, enables new solutions to compete on a level playing with established goods and services.

IP is an effective way to boost innovation from the demand-side.

IP is an efficient way to procure transnational common unmet needs.

Procurers must become part of the innovation cycle by creating capacity in pro-innovation procurement.

IP prevents usual practices that may constitute barriers to innovation, such as:

• Too much emphasis on price
• Variants no allowed
• Too prescriptive specifications
• General lack of demand for innovation
• Poor management of risk
• Inadequate management of intellectual property rights

INNOVATION PROCUREMENT POLICY (IPP) CASE STUDY OF THE NETHERLANDS