Susana Borrás (Copenhagen Business School) and Charles Edquist (CIRCLE) will publish a book with Oxford University Press later this year. The preliminary title is “Holistic Innovation Policy: Theoretical Foundations, Policy Problems and Instrument Choices”. On May 23-24, 2017 each draft chapter will be discussed by two invited colleagues in a workshop at CIRCLE. The workshop … Continue reading
The Swedish National Innovation Council (NIC) was created by the Prime Minister on February 9, 2015. In February 2017 it was restructured and Charles was reappointed for a second term, which runs until September 30, 2018. The purpose of NIC is to develop Sweden’s national innovation system and thereby mitigate societal and environmental challenges as … Continue reading
The European Commission has taken the initiative to a project entitled “Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Innovation Procurement under Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility”. This MLE focusses on three kinds of Innovation-enhancing public procurement (direct innovation procurement, catalytic innovation procurement and functional regular procurement) and on Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) of R&D results. The project … Continue reading
During November 29 – December 3, Charles was a guest at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He gave the so-called “KAIST Global Lecture”. The topic was ”Policy rationales, governance and policy instruments for a holistic and transnational innovation policy”. During the visit to Korea he also gave a seminar at the … Continue reading
A meeting with the Swedish National Innovation Council took place on Thursday, November 24 at Rosenbad in Stockholm. Issues on the agenda were digitalization, the work with the five collaboration programs and the development of Swedish research in the space area. Continue reading
Charles participated in a “Workshop on The European Spallation Source (ESS) – from the strategy to action”, organized by the Swedish Research Council in Stockholm on November 21, 2016. One of the central things discussed was how “citizen value”, e.g. in the form of innovations, can be captured from large research infrastructures such as the … Continue reading
Thursday, October 20 Charles participated in a meeting with the Council for Strategic Public Procurement at the Skåne Region. Continue reading
