Charles and Susana Borrás received the Best Paper Award 2013 at the Atlanta Conference on Science & Innovation Policy (http://www.atlantaconference.org/), at The Georgia Institute of Technology, 26-28 September 2013. Their paper is entitled “Competence Building: A Systemic Approach to Innovation Policy”. The award was presented during the ceremony at the conference on 26 September 2013. … Continue reading
On September 5-6, 2013 “The 14th International Conference on Industrial Technology Innovation – Innovation Policy in the Structural Transformation Era” was organized by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, in Taipei, Taiwan. Charles gave the key-note speech entitled “How to Design Innovation Policy: Identification of Systemic Problems”. He also gave a presentation on “Innovation Policy in Sweden”, on … Continue reading
On September 6, Charles presented on “Innovation Procurement – Useful for Health Care?” at the conference “Procurement in Health Care” at The Swedish Institute for Health Economics: http://www.ihe.se/start-2.aspx in Lund, Sweden. Continue reading
On August 23, 2013, Charles participated in the Ericsson Delphi Panel on developing an Ericsson Networked Society Index, organized by Sweco and Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden. Continue reading
Näringspolitik (och industripolitik) förknippas ofta med stöd till gamla och döende sektorer. Men vi vet att innovationer i tidiga stadier är förbundna med så stora risker och så stor osäkerhet att de privata aktörerna ofta skyggar – både i USA och i Sverige. Continue reading
From April 2013, and for the next three years, Charles Edquist is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI). The other members are Stefan Kuhlman (Twente, President), Emanuela Reale (Rome), Stephanie Daimer (Karlsruhe), Jakob Edler (Manchester) and Philippe Laredo (Paris). Eu-SPRI aims at … Continue reading
The annual Almedalen Week in Visby, the Island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, was the largest meeting place for the exchange of social, economic and political ideas in Sweden – with a history of 45 years. In 2012, there were 1 818 seminars and other events in the official program. This year, Charles participated in a … Continue reading
Charles was a speaker at “Global Economy and Industry Forum 2013, Creativity, Innovation, Industry; New challenges for Policies”, in Seoul, Korea, June 24, 2013. The Forum was organized jointly by KDI (Korean Development Institute) and the Koreas Government (Ministry of Strategy and Finance).The Forum aimed to examine the global trends in industrial innovations and their … Continue reading
Charles Edquist 