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
During November 29 – December 3, 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 the … Continue reading
A meeting with the Swedish National Innovation Council took place on Thursday, November 24 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
Charles participated in a “Workshop on The European Spallation Source (ESS) – from the strategy to action”, organized by the Swedish Research Council in Stockholm on November 21, 2016. One of the central things discussed was how “citizen value”, e.g. in the form of innovations, can be captured from large research infrastructures such as the … Continue reading
Thursday, October 20 Charles participated in a meeting with the Council for Strategic Public Procurement at the Skåne Region. Continue reading
The OECD Blue Sky Forum on Science and Innovation indicators helded in Ghent, Belgium, Monday-Wednesday, September 19 – 21. Together with Susana Borrás, Charles presented a paper entitled: “Conceptual Underpinnings for Innovation Policy Design ‐ Instruments and Indicators in Context”. The paper can be downloaded here. The home page of this long-term and high-profile conference is: … Continue reading
The SPRU 50 Year’s Conference is on, September 7 – 9 at Sussex University, Brighton, UK. At that conference, Charles presented a paper entitled “The Swedish National Innovation Council – Governance to replace linearity with holism in innovation policy?”. The link to the conference is: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/about/50years/conference and the link to the paper is http://wp.circle.lu.se/upload/CIRCLE/workingpapers/201624_edquist.pdf Continue reading
