PPI4MED in Italy launched the Italian national living lab on Public Procurement of Innovation

The video is in Italian.

This video shows the round table of the virtual launching of the Italian National Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI) Living Lab. It took place on March 18th, 2021, it was given by the Centro Nazionale della Ricerca of Italy an was very well received.

During the meeting, which was opened by Lucio D’Alessandro, Vice-president of CNR, Anna Maria Catte, head of ENI CBC Programme Management Authority, Ana Castro, Deputy Vice president of Knowledge Transfer of CSIC and Virginia Coda Nunziante, Head of CNR Unit for European and International Relations, there was an opportunity to discuss different aspects of the Italian innovation ecosystem, the commercialization of public research results, the importance of promoting young researchers and to present two lines of the National Research Plan that will implement in the next period.

The meeting also highlighted how the pandemic has changed the perception of science, giving it much more visibility and showing the way for the supply and demand of knowledge to meet. Technology transfer, co-creation and interaction are fundamental to advance societies with the collaboration of all territorial agents.