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