“Buy rapid train transports – not high speed trains” was the title of a debate article by Johan Nordlander, Ingvar Johansson and Charles published (in Swedish) in the weekly magazine “Ny Teknk” on June 11, 2019. One theme in the article is that politicians and public officials should not, beforehand, choose technologies in public procurement … Continue reading →

The Swedish daily economic newspaper Dagens Industri published, on January 27, a debate article entitled ”This is the way procurement can be improved” (in Swedish). It is focusing upon ‘functional’ or ‘problem-based’ public procurement. One of the key sentences is: “To enhance innovations it is, paradoxically, more important to talk about functional procurement than about … Continue reading →

An article, in Swedish, by Amela Hodzic and Charles Edquist, entitled “Procurement decides the innovation power”, was just published in the journal Dagens Samhälle. You can read the article here. Continue reading →

On May 20, 2015, an interview was made with Charles by the Swedish weekly Ny Teknik. It addresses the fact that the government is developing a national strategy for public procurement, where innovation-related public procurement will be an important part. The interview (in Swedish) can be found here. Continue reading →

On May 11, 2015 Charles published a debate article (op-ed) at “DN Debatt” in the largest Swedish daily “Dagens Nyheter”. The title was “Innovationspolitiken måste samlas i en egen proposition“ (“Innovation policy must be united into a separate government bill” – in Swedish only). One argument is that the design of innovation policy and research … Continue reading →