Innovation procurement in Italy

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1 Thessaloniki, 29 th April 2014 Innovation procurement in Italy Mobilizing R&D budget, current expenditure and Structural Funds EU High level event «Digital Innovation for Regional Growth» Sara Bedin Independent expert on innovation procurement for MIUR and Lombardy Region ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This document is property of the author. It may not be reproduced, memorized for storage in an electronic data base or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other), in whole or in part, without the express written consent of the author.

2 The national top down approach for PCP /PPI The National PCP/PPI funding program through the Cohesion Action Plan Amount of resources allocated: 150Million EUR Source of funding: re-invested resources resulting from the reduction in the national co-financing quota (National revolving Fund), originally allocated for NOP R&C Intensity of funding: (100% PCP) (~ 20% PPI) Procurer/Recipients of innovation: Body governed by public law engaged in public services and localized in (one or more of) the 4 (IT) Convergence Regions Policy maker: MIUR (Ministry for education, research and innovation) and MISE (Ministry for Economic Development) Adjudicating authority: (for PCP) MIUR (Ministry for education, research and innovation) and MISE (Ministry for Economic Development); (for subsequent PPI) local PAs. Implementing act: Public notice for the recognition of innovation needs in Convergence Region - DD 437 of 13 /03/2013). 2

3 The Cohesion Action Plan reprogramming measure in Italy NOP R&C initial funding NOP R&C reprogrammed CAP (National Operational (Cohesion Program Research and Action Plan) EURO (Million) % EURO (Million) % EURO (Million) Axis I - Support for structural changes to innovation ,7 877 Axis II- Support for innovation ,1 586 Axis III - Technical assistance ,5 18 Horizontal priorities TOT % 4424,3 100% 1781 referred to EC ERDF referred to National Revolving Fund (FdR) referred to MIUR referred to MISE % 3102,7 70,10% % 1321,7 29,90% % 2365,7 53% % 2058,7 47% 914 Innovation public procurement (quota referred to MIUR) Innovation public procurement (quota referred to MISE)

4 The national top down funding program for PCP /PPI (submitted innovation needs) Admission criteria 1.Commitment to identify and organize a real-life customer environment in order to assess the performance of working prototypes (or limited volume of first products or services in the form of a test series), to demonstrate that they are suitable for production or supply in quantity to acceptable quality standards. 2.Commitment to undertake the procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) resulting from R&D. (submitted innovation needs) Award criteria 1. Social and economic relevance a)adherence to the thematic priorities of Horizon b)connection with a priority or urgent challenges emerging in urban areas, metropolitan and regional level. 2. Technical relevance a)novelty and originality of knowledge needed, with reference to the state of the art this eventually detected with a technical dialogue before expression of interest. b)specification level of the need functional and performance requirements c)adequacy of the real-life operating environment identified for the test and experimentation. 3. Industrial relevance and potential target market a)relevance and coherence of the innovation need with respect to local industrial development objectives b)level of demand aggregation/pooling, documented with the number of public bodies involved in the partnership (and not necessarly established in one of the Convergence Region) c)target market potential dimension. 4

5 LOCAL LEVEL (Recipients of innovation) NATIONAL LEVEL (Policy maker + Adjudicating authority) The national top down funding program for PCP /PPI 13 March 2013 Notice of Call for idea June 2014 Expression of interest evaluation Candidate PCP ranking Candidate PCPs selection Financial allocation to projects (100% PCP and ~20% PPI) PCPs procedures design (Open technical dialogues) PCP call for tender and procedures management Needs assessment SoA analysis (technical dialogue) Experimentation of different solutions in real-life operational conditions Expression of interest submission September 2013 Co-funded PPI action (procuring commercial volumes of endproducts) 5

6 Let s compete on innovation d u r i n g t h e e x e c u t i o n! For furher info: Sara Bedin sara.bedin@appaltoprecommerciale.it 6