The EU-SPRI Annual Conference 2015 was held in Helsinki last June 10-12, 2015. The theme this year was “Innovation policies for economic and social transitions: developing strategies for knowledge, practices and institutions.” Information about the conference can be found here.

Charles Edquist was involved in the presentation of the following papers:

• “The Innovation Union Scoreboard is Flawed: the Case of Sweden – not being the innovation leader of the EU”, by Charles Edquist and Jon Mikel Zabala- Iturriagagoitia, in collaboration with Michael Nauruschat, and
• “Public risk capital funding should be risk funding – but additionality is not there”, by Charles Edquist.