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
Category Archives: Talks & Presentations
Charles at the Autonomous University of Madrid
During March 1 – 31, 2019, Charles was appointed to hold the “UAM-Accenture Visiting Fellowship” in the area of economics and management of innovation at the “UAM-Accenture Chair”, the Autonomous University of Madrid. Information about the UAM Accenture Chair can be found here: Continue reading
Eu-SPRI 2018
On June 7 – 8 Charles was scheduled to participate in the EU-SPRI 2018 Conference in Paris, entitled “Governance and relevance: Towards a new generation of research and innovation policies”. However, because of problems with flights, he did not reach Paris. But his co-authors presented two joint papers. Susana Borrás presented a paper entitled “Theoretical … Continue reading
TAFTIE Annual Conference
On June 7, 2018 Charles spoke at the TAFTIE ANNUAL CONFERENCE. TAFTIE is The European Network of Innovation Agencies , and the conference was hosted by MITA, The Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology, Vilnius. Charles made a presentation entitled: “Make Public Procurement Drive Innovation: Specify Functions Instead of Products!” Continue reading
Charles at Aalborg University
Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Björn Johnson and Esben Sloth Andersen at Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University decided to formally retire and celebrated this by a common retirement last June 1st 2018 at Aalborg University – in which Charles participated. Ned Lorenz, Jan Fagerberg and Cristina Chaminade made presentations and Bengt-Aake, Esben and Björn gave … Continue reading
Separate innovation policy and research policy – to abandon linearity!
At the 2016 EU-SPRI Conference on June 7-10, 2016, Charles presented a paper entitled “Separate innovation policy and research policy – to abandon linearity!” Continue reading
Charles Edquist in Bangkok, Thailand
On September 5 – 7 Charles visited Bangkok, Thailand. He met with Top Executives at the Ministry of Science and Technology, including NSTDA, TCELS, and the STI Policy Office. He also gave a lecture entitled “Driving Innovation through Public Policy: The Case of Sweden” in which there were some emphasis on financing of innovations and … Continue reading
The Italian Presidency of the EU Council organized a meeting of Health Ministers in Milan on September 21-22. A conference was held on “Innovative Systems and Health Horizons”. At this event, Charles gave a Keynote speech on the health innovation system and the role of innovative public procurement. Continue reading
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