The International Council of Swedish Industry (NIR) is a part of The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv). NIR is running a collaboration project on innovation systems in Cuba, financed by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency). Within this NIR framework, Charles was invited to give a speech at the conference “La Universidad y la … Continue reading
Functional public procurement describes problems that shall be solved, instead of describing the products to be bought. It is the most powerful innovation policy instrument that exists. This is because of the enormous volume of public procurement (15-20 % of global GDP), and the fact that describing products in public procurement prevents innovation – you … Continue reading
The European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI – https://euspri-forum.eu/) has now existed for 10 years and has played an important role in contributing to structuring and developing this research community. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020, Eu-SPRI organized a workshop in Karlsruhe on December 6, 2019. The purpose was to … Continue reading
On December 6 – 13 a PhD course was organized at the Copenhagen Business School, by Professor Susana Borrás. The course title was “Problem-oriented Innovation Policy: Key Organizational Dynamics and Issues”. Charles gave the first two lectures in the course. They were entitled: “Problem-Oriented Innovation Policy: A Holistic Approach”, and “Demand-driven Innovation Policy: The Example … Continue reading
Charles gave a seminar in Gothenburg at the CIIST (The Chalmers Initiative for Innovation and Sustainability Transitions) on October 10, 2019. The title was “Innovation policy for sustainability transitions”. In his talk he covered the following three related subthemes: Holistic innovation policy and the importance of sustainability objectives The recent experience of the Swedish National … Continue reading
“Buy rapid train transports – not high speed trains” was the title of a debate article by Johan Nordlander, Ingvar Johansson and Charles published (in Swedish) in the weekly magazine “Ny Teknk” on June 11, 2019. One theme in the article is that politicians and public officials should not, beforehand, choose technologies in public procurement … Continue reading
Charles participated in the 2019 Conference of Eu-SPRI (European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation), held in Rome on June, 5 – 7. Together with Jon Mikel Zabala Iturriagagoitia he presented a paper on “Functional Procurement for Innovation, Welfare and Sustainability” in a session on “Transformative Innovation Policy”. At another session he … Continue reading
