The Public Purchase of Innovation (CPI) is an administrative action aimed at promoting the development of innovative solutions from the demand side, through the public procurement instrument.
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
- Improve public services by incorporating innovative goods or services.
- Promote business innovation and, therefore, economic growth.
- Promote the internationalization of innovation using the local public market as a launch or reference client.
POTENTIAL USERS
The CPI is an instrument that can be used by any public sector entity or body that has the status of contracting authority and provides a public service in the field of which it detects a need or deficiency that cannot be met by the acquisition of the goods or services offered by the market.
TYPES OF CPI
- Public Purchase of Innovative Technology (CPTI): Its object is a product or service that does not exist at that time, but whose development is already in a phase very close to the market.
- Pre-commercial Public Purchase (PPC): Its objective is an R&D service that would end with the approach to the market of one or several innovative solutions suitable to meet the needs identified by the awarded power.
