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
Category Archives: Speaking Engagements
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
On September 5-6, 2013 “The 14th International Conference on Industrial Technology Innovation – Innovation Policy in the Structural Transformation Era” was organized by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, in Taipei, Taiwan. Charles gave the key-note speech entitled “How to Design Innovation Policy: Identification of Systemic Problems”. He also gave a presentation on “Innovation Policy in Sweden”, on … Continue reading
Public Seminar at CBS on Innovation Systems, Innovation Policy and Innovation Procurement – an account of the state of the art
Speaker: Professor Charles Edquist Place: Kilevej 14A, 3nd floor, room K3.41, DK – 2000 Frederiksberg, Copenhagen Business School Time: Wednsday February 27th 2013, 14:00 – 15:30 Abstract Innovation policy has to be based on identification of policy problems by means of comparing innovation systems over geography or over time. Two conditions must be fulfilled for public intervention to be … Continue reading
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