CIRCLE is organizing the 2016 EU-SPRI General Conference in Lund on June 7-10, 2016. The theme of the conference is “Exploring New Avenues for Innovation and Research Policies”. There is more information on the conference web page: http://www.euspri-circle2016.org Continue reading
In Seville, last October 1 – 2, 2015, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission organized the 5th European Conference on Corporate R&D and Innovation (CONCORDI 2015). Charles Edquist is a member of the Scientific Committee of the conference and participated in Seville with a presentation entitled “Public Risk Capital Funding: Additionality vs. Duplication” … Continue reading
The 13th Globelics International Conference took place in Havana, Cuba last September 23-25, 2015. There, Charles presented a paper entitled “Demand-oriented Innovation Policy: Innovation-related Public Procurement to Solve Societal Problems and Satisfy Human Needs”. A marginally different version of the paper can be downloaded here. Continue reading
Charles presented the CIRCLE Working Paper 2015/27 entitled “The Innovation Union Scoreboard is Flawed: The case of Sweden – not the innovation leader of the EU – updated version”, at a seminar at the European Commission on September 15, 2015. A discussion transpired after the seminar on the use of indicators in assessing the performance … Continue reading
On September 5 – 7 Charles visited Bangkok, Thailand. He met with Top Executives at the Ministry of Science and Technology, including NSTDA, TCELS, and the STI Policy Office. He also gave a lecture entitled “Driving Innovation through Public Policy: The Case of Sweden” in which there were some emphasis on financing of innovations and … Continue reading
Charles gave a key-note speech at “The 16th International Conference on Industrial Technology Innovation (ICITI, 2015)”, held in Taipei, Taiwan on September 3-4, 2015. The main theme of the conference is public sector innovation, open data and value creation. The title of Charles’ presentation is “Linear vs Holistic Innovation Policies: The Role of the Public … Continue reading
On September 2, Charles participated in a meeting with the Swedish National Innovation Council at Rosenbad, Stockholm. Continue reading
In the paper innovation-related public procurement as an innovation policy instrument is discussed. Five types of public procurement are defined and discussed: Regular public procurement (PP) – from the shelf Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI) a) Direct b) Catalytic Innovation-friendly (regular) PP Pre-Commercial R&D procurement (PCP) (although this is actually a research policy instrument) It … Continue reading
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