Public procurement of innovation

The Author deals with public procurement of innovation (PPI and PCP) introducing the meaning of this legal institution, presenting and explaining it. This goals are achieved by indicating its characteristic features, as well as paying attention to the role they play in the economic turnover, and the expectations of the European Union related to the use of public procurement of innovation. The characteristics of pre-commercial procurement (PCP), as well as orders in the field of innovation (PPI) bring these institutions closer to each other. Innovative orders are changes in an approach to public procurement of regarding a purchase of goods, services and works from the perspective of purchasing products, or services which are incorporated the latest technical solutions or the latest technologies. It is also a change in the perception of public procurement as a tool to achieve goals, and meet defined needs by public entities.