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 late April 2015 we published CIRCLE Working Paper (No. 2015/16) arguing that the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) is flawed. In early May the 2015 edition of the Innovation Union Scoreboard was published by the European Commission. This made it important for us to update and publish a new CIRCLE Working Paper (No 2015/26) entitled … Continue reading
At the Almedalen Week in Visby, Gotland, Charles spoke in a seminar organized by Ratio (Näringlivets forskningsinstitut) on “Financing of Innovation and Growth”, on Monday, June 29 at 15.00-16.30. He also gave a short speech at a dinner organized by Sveriges Ingenjörer, the same day at 20.15. Charles also participated in a discussion on innovation-related procurement … Continue reading
An interview with Charles Edquist was, on June 18, 2015, published in the Newsletter of the organization “Sweden’s Public Procurers”. In that interview Charles singled out functional procurement as the most important means to make public procurement support and enhance innovation. The interview (in Swedish) can be found here. If you want to read the … Continue reading
The EU-SPRI Annual Conference 2015 was held in Helsinki last June 10-12, 2015. The theme this year was “Innovation policies for economic and social transitions: developing strategies for knowledge, practices and institutions.” Information about the conference can be found here. Continue reading
On June 5, 2015 The “Region Skåne” arranged a half day seminar (in Swedish) on “How do we create prerequisites of innovation procurement” in Malmö City. Charles presented “Speed up innovation procurement: buy functions – not products!” in the seminar. The program can be found here. Continue reading
Charles Edquist 