Future Activities Thursday, October 20 Charles participate in a meeting with the Council for Strategic Public Procurement at the Skåne Region. Next meeting with the Swedish National Innovation Council will take place on Thursday, November 24 in Stockholm. Charles will attend.
The OECD Blue Sky Forum on Science and Innovation indicators helded in Ghent, Belgium, Monday-Wednesday, September 19 – 21. Together with Susana Borrás, Charles presented a paper entitled: “Conceptual Underpinnings for Innovation Policy Design ‐ Instruments and Indicators in Context”. The paper can be downloaded here. The home page of this long-term and high-profile conference is: … Continue reading
The SPRU 50 Year’s Conference is on, September 7 – 9 at Sussex University, Brighton, UK. At that conference, Charles presented a paper entitled “The Swedish National Innovation Council – Governance to replace linearity with holism in innovation policy?”. The link to the conference is: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/about/50years/conference and the link to the paper is http://wp.circle.lu.se/upload/CIRCLE/workingpapers/201624_edquist.pdf Continue reading
The Swedish National Innovation Council (NIC) was created in February 2015 by the Prime Minister (Stefan Löfven) who is also personally charing the 4-7 hour meetings four times per year. Very little information about the operation of the Swedish NIC is publicly available – there are no official minutes or reports. Having been a member … Continue reading
There seems to have been a “spontaneous” tendency for public innovation funding organizations to drift into funding in later stages in the innovation process – instead of concentrating on the early stages, where innovating companies do not yet have any sales. The provision of this funding did compete with private providers of capital, which may … Continue reading
At the 2016 EU-SPRI Conference on June 7-10, 2016, Charles presented a paper entitled “Separate innovation policy and research policy – to abandon linearity!” Continue reading
The Swedish government took a decision to adopt the National Procurement Strategy in late June 2016 – Ardalan Shekarabi is responsible Minister. Functional procurement is an important element in that strategy. What is described in the procurement documents (förfrågningsunderlagen) in such procurement is functions or solutions to problems rather than products (goods and services). This … Continue reading
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is Europe’s largest public-private initiative aiming to speed up the development of better and safer medicines for patients. IMI supports collaborative research projects and builds networks of industrial and academic experts in order to boost pharmaceutical innovation in Europe. IMI is a joint undertaking between the European Union and the … Continue reading
