We are happy to announce that Susanna Borrás and Charles’ new book, Holistic Innovation Policy – Theoretical Foundations, Policy Problems, and Instrument Choices, is now available through the Oxford University Press website Continue reading
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The EU Innovation ranking is flawed
On June 22, the 2018 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) was published by the European Commission. The summary innovation index included in the EIS misleads politicians, policy-makers, researchers and the general public. Continue reading
The first research article on the Swedish National Innovation Council published
The Swedish National Innovation Council (NIC) was created in February 2015 by the Prime Minister (Stefan Löfven) who is also personally charing the 4-7 hour meetings four times per year. Very little information about the operation of the Swedish NIC is publicly available – there are no official minutes or reports. Having been a member … Continue reading
Workshop on book on holistic innovation policy at CIRCLE
Susana Borrás (Copenhagen Business School) and Charles Edquist (CIRCLE) will publish a book with Oxford University Press later this year. The preliminary title is “Holistic Innovation Policy: Theoretical Foundations, Policy Problems and Instrument Choices”. On May 23-24, 2017 each draft chapter was discussed by two invited colleagues in a workshop at CIRCLE. The workshop … Continue reading
Charles Edquist reappointed to the Swedish National Innovation Council
The Swedish National Innovation Council (NIC) was created by the Prime Minister on February 9, 2015. In February 2017 it was restructured and Charles was reappointed for a second term, which runs until September 30, 2018. The purpose of NIC is to develop Sweden’s national innovation system and thereby mitigate societal and environmental challenges as … Continue reading
Charles is chairing an EU project on Public Innovation Procurement
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
Charles gave a talk about functional public procurement at Sustainable Business Hub in Malmö on May 13, 2016. In the invitation was written “With functional procurement you buy clean water instead of sewage treatment works, a decibel level instead of a noise fence and inside temperature instead of heat and cold. In this way … Continue reading
Education, Training and Skills in Innovation Policy
A paper by Susana Borrás and Charles Edquist has been published by Science and Public Policy through the journal’s “Advanced Access” service last 15 July 2014. The article, entitled “Education, Training and Skills in Innovation Policy” will be included in the succeeding issue of the journal. The abstract reads: The main question that guides this … Continue reading
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