In February 2016, Charles Edquist from CIRCLE (Lund) and Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia from Deusto University (San Sebastian) were given the 5,000 Euros UAM-Accenture Chair 2015 Award in Economics and Innovation Management of the Universidad Autónomia de Madrid. The award was given for a paper entitled “Is more always better? Analysing the Innovation Union Scoreboard in Sweden.”

A similar version of the paper is entitled “The Innovation Union Scoreboard is flawed: The Case of Sweden – not the innovation leader of the EU – updated version”. It was published in the CIRCLE Papers in Innovation Studies series, as Paper no. 2015/27 and can be downloaded from here: https://charlesedquist.com/2015/08/18/the-innovation-union-scoreboard-is-flawed-new-working-paper-by-charles-and-jon-mikel/. (A more elaborated version of the study of relevance for all EU Member States is currently under evaluation for possible publication in a scientific journal.)

More information about the award can be found at: https://www.uam.es/docencia/degin/catedra/premio2015_en.html and at: https://www.uam.es/docencia/degin/catedra/documentos/Bases%20Premio%20Catedra/Conditions%20for%20the%20VII%20UAM_Accenture%20Annual%20Award.pdf