Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum celebrated its 20th anniversary at a conference called “Småföretagsdagarna” last March 12, 2014 at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. At that occasion, Charles Edquist participated in a panel discussion on “Innovation Power for a more Entrepreneurial Sweden”. Continue reading
On March 20, 2014 ERAC organized a Mutual Learning Seminar in Brussels. The topic was on national R&I policies. Charles Edquist was, as an independent expert: Prepared an introduction note to the session on “The Efficiency of the Research and Innovation System”, Introduced and moderated this session at the seminar, and Produced a report on … Continue reading
On March 13 – 14 2014, Charles was invited to the Lundvall Symposium 2014, an annual international symposium on Innovation Studies, organized by the IKE Group of Ålborg University in Denmark. The theme for its third year was: “Innovation policy – how can it make a difference?” For the symposium, Charles has written a paper … Continue reading
Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum celebrated its 20th anniversary at a conference called “Småföretagsdagarna” last March 12, 2014 at the Concert Hall in Stockholm. At that occasion, Charles Edquist participated in a panel discussion on “Innovation Power for a more Entrepreneurial Sweden”. Other participants were Annie Lööf (Minister of Industries), Charlotte Brogren (General Director, VINNOVA ), Fredrika … Continue reading
Last December 2 – 6 2013, the fifteenth session of the UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) General Conference took place in Lima, Peru under the overarching theme “UNIDO: Towards partnerships for a new industrial revolution for inclusive and sustainable growth”. The Conference was attended by 1,500 delegates (all 172 Member States), including many Heads … Continue reading
Charles participated in the OECD Workshop on “Measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innovation” in Paris last December 5 – 6, 2013. He was a member of the final panel discussion on “Integrating public procurement activities in the R&D and innovation measurement frameworks”. Continue reading
During October 28 – November 1, Charles was a guest at The Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), Beijing, China (http://www.casted.org.cn). He lectured at CASTED and visited to some research organizations in Beijing will be organized by CASTED. Continue reading
Last October 26 – 27, Charles was invited to speak on innovation policy at The Pujiang Forum in Shanghai, China (http://www.pujiangforum.org/index.aspx). You may download the programme here. Continue reading
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