The Swedish National Innovation Council organized a number of presentations in Almedalen in Visby on the Island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Charles was speaking about how to develop a “Holistic Innovation Policy” on July 6, 2017. Other speakers were Jane Walerud, Helen Hellmark Knutsson and Mikael Damberg. The Swedish National Innovation Council had … Continue reading
Charles participated in the EU-SPRI conference in Vienna on June 7 – 9, 2017. He presented a draft of the final chapter of his forthcoming book with Susana Borrás entitled “Holistic Innovation Policy: Theoretical Foundations, Policy Problems and Instrument Choices”, as can be seen in the picture. He also participated in a panel debate on … Continue reading
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
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
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
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, 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
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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