Charles gave a talk about functional public procurement at Sustainable Business Hub in Malmö on May 13, 2016. In the invitation was written “With functional procurement you buy clean water instead of sewage treatment works, a decibel level instead of a noise fence and inside temperature instead of heat and cold. In this way … Continue reading
Charles now been in Madrid to receive UAM-Accenture Chair 2015 Award in Economics and Innovation Management of the Universidad Autonomia de Madrid. The award was given for a paper entitled “Is more always better? Analysing the Innovation Union Scoreboard in Sweden” . Continue reading
The article by Charles about design and innovation policy, which was published in 2011 in the journal “Industrial and Corporate Change” has been republished in the book “Innovation, Technology and Economic Change”, 2015. Cheltenhamn: Edward Elgar Publishing. Continue reading
Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI) is a powerful, underutilized demand-side innovation policy instrument that can be used to stimulate innovation, meet sectoral policy goals and mitigate grand challenges. Further research is required to analyze how PPI contributes to these goals and how it operates in practice; more case studies are needed to achieve this. We … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Swedish daily economic newspaper Dagens Industri published, on January 27, a debate article entitled ”This is the way procurement can be improved” (in Swedish). It is focusing upon ‘functional’ or ‘problem-based’ public procurement. One of the key sentences is: “To enhance innovations it is, paradoxically, more important to talk about functional procurement than about … Continue reading
The Swedish Government is in the process of formulating a National Strategy for Public Procurement, where procurement that enhances innovations will be an important part. Innovation-related public procurement has been discussed at two of the four meetings of the Swedish National Innovation Council during 2015. The work with the national strategy is coordinated by the … Continue reading
On November 19, Charles participated in the first meeting with the new Council for Strategic Public Procurement of the Skåne Region administration, in which he is now a member. The volume of procurement of the Skåne Region is about 600 million euros annually. The Council addresses issues of public procurement related to innovations, the environment … Continue reading
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