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
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Scientific Award to Charles and Jon Mikel
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 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
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
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