Charles will participate in the 2025 Eu-SPRI Conference on ‘Shaping Societal Futures with STI Policies’ on June 11 – 13, 2025. He will present a paper entitled “States and Markets in Innovation Research and Innovation Policy: Achievements and Challenges”. The Conference is organized by the Social Science Research Center at TU Dortmund University in Dortmund, … Continue reading
Charles participated in the 2023 Eu-SPRI Conference on “Research with Impact” hosted by the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School on June 14 – 16, 2023. He made a full paper presentation of the following paper: “Product procurement and functional procurement for innovation – clarifications needed for empirical research”. … Continue reading
Charles gave a presentation entitled “La Innovación, Motor de un Pais” to the Spanish Parliament on January 27, 2023. Continue reading
Charles was a speaker at the 2021 KOPPEX International Public Procurement Workshop: “Innovation and inclusion in Public Procurement” on September 29, 2021. The title of his speech was “Functional Public Procurement and Innovation”. The workshop was organized by the Public Procurement Service (PPS), Korean Government, and Korea Institute of Procurement. The presentation was recorded in … Continue reading
On November 13, 2020 Charles participated in an online Discussion Panel Roundtable devoted to “The Future of Industrial and Innovation Policies” organized by the Economics of Innovation Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI). The presentation topic was “Holistic Innovation Policy: Theoretical Foundations, Policy Problems and Instrumental Choices”. The program of the YSI Virtual … Continue reading
On May 20, 2019, Charles made a presentation entitled “Fossil free innovations by means of functional procurement – daring to think in new ways” at the “Fossil Free Sweden Initiative” in Stockholm. The title of the conference was “Fossil Free Public Procurement – obstacles and possibilities”. The video of the conference is available at http://fossilfritt-sverige.se/pa-gang/sandning-fossilfri-offentlig-upphandling-hinder-och-mojligheter/ … Continue reading
The book by Susana Borrás and Charles Edquist entitled “Holistic Innovation Policy: Theoretical Foundations, Policy Problems and Instrument Choices” was presented by Charles on May 13, 2019 at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (Institutet för Näringspolitiska Studier – IFN), Stockholm. More information about the book is available at Oxford University Press. The Table of … Continue reading
Charles presented the report on functional public procurement written for the Swedish Competition Agency at a seminar at the Swedish Ministry of Finance on April 5, 2019. The report is available at: http://www.konkurrensverket.se/contentassets/916ecd96293549589d7ae5ee2e2c0eae/forsk-rapport_2019_2-.pdf. For more information about the report, please see an entry further below on this home page. Continue reading
Charles Edquist 