Charles has, in Energy Policy, published an article entitled “Perspectives for the Brazilian bioethanol sector: The innovation driver”. The article is available here. Continue reading
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Meeting with Swedish National Innovation Council
On May 15 Charles participated in another meeting with the Swedish National Innovation Council in Stockholm. The issues discussed this time were: Lifelong learning in a digital era How to transform to a fossil free welfare society Availability of public data for new solutions to societal challenges and data driven service innovations The next meeting will take … Continue reading
EU project on innovation-related public procurement
There has been two metings with the EU project on innovation-related public procurement which Charels is chairing, one in The Hague (March 23, 2017) and one in Frankfurt (May 31-June 1, 2017). The meeting in The Hague focused on the development of a strategic framework for innovation-related procurement and the Frankfurt meeting was concentrated on … Continue reading
Workshop on book on holistic innovation policy at CIRCLE
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 was discussed by two invited colleagues in a workshop at CIRCLE. The workshop … Continue reading
Charles Edquist reappointed to the Swedish National Innovation Council
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
Charles is chairing an EU project on Public Innovation Procurement
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
Visit to Korea
During November 29 – December 3, 2016, 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 … Continue reading
Meeting with the Swedish National Innovation Council
A meeting with the Swedish National Innovation Council took place on Thursday, November 24, 2016 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
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