The Swedish National Innovation Council has four (or more) meetings per year. The most recent one was held on May 28, 2018. The venue was in Harpsund, which is the country residence for the Prime Minister of Sweden. The meeting lasted for 5 hours and addressed the following issues: Working places for life-long learning, Renewal in healthcare, … Continue reading
During May 14-19, 2018, Charles visited Thailand. He contributed to the “STI Strategy Development and Anchor Program Workshop, at Thonburi University in Bangkok. He gave two lectures: Innovation Theory for Developing a Holistic Innovation Policy – Replacing Linearity! Make Strategic Public Procurement Drive Innovation: Specify Functions Instead of Products He also provided consultancy services to … Continue reading
CIRCLE organized the EU-SPRI Winter School on March 5 -12, 2018. The general topic was “Policies for research and innovation: Geography of innovation”. Charles contributed with a lecture entitled “A Holistic Innovation Policy and the Practice of the Swedish National Innovation Council”. Continue reading
An article entitled “Public procurement for innovation to help meet social challenges: a review and a case study” has been published on 28 February, 2018 in Science and Public Policy. The authors are Joeri H. Wesseling and Charles Edquist. It deals with how public procurement can contribute to meeting societal challenges by presenting a literature review … Continue reading
On January 22, 2018 Charles Edquist lectured for eight hours at the Deusto Business School, San Sebastian. He covered the following topics: Innovation theory, particularly the systems of innovation approach in a wide version. The role of institutions for innovation. Innovation policies – old partial/linear practices and the new holistic approach (including demand-side instruments). Is … 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
On November 30, 2017, Charles gave a lecture at the Cátedra UAM-Accenture en Economic y Gestión de la Innovación, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. His topic was “Towards a Holistic Innovation Policy: The Swedish National Innovation Council as a Role Model”. Continue reading
Charles participated in a reference group meeting on a report on “Innovation Competitions” written by Stefan Fölster at the Swedish competition authority, November 16, 2017 in Stockholm. Continue reading
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