The International Council of Swedish Industry (NIR) is a part of The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv). NIR is running a collaboration project on innovation systems in Cuba, financed by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency). Within this NIR framework, Charles was invited to give a speech at the conference “La Universidad y la … Continue reading
The European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI – https://euspri-forum.eu/) has now existed for 10 years and has played an important role in contributing to structuring and developing this research community. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020, Eu-SPRI organized a workshop in Karlsruhe on December 6, 2019. The purpose was to … Continue reading
On December 6 – 13 a PhD course was organized at the Copenhagen Business School, by Professor Susana Borrás. The course title was “Problem-oriented Innovation Policy: Key Organizational Dynamics and Issues”. Charles gave the first two lectures in the course. They were entitled: “Problem-Oriented Innovation Policy: A Holistic Approach”, and “Demand-driven Innovation Policy: The Example … Continue reading
Charles gave a seminar in Gothenburg at the CIIST (The Chalmers Initiative for Innovation and Sustainability Transitions) on October 10, 2019. The title was “Innovation policy for sustainability transitions”. In his talk he covered the following three related subthemes: Holistic innovation policy and the importance of sustainability objectives The recent experience of the Swedish National … Continue reading
“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
Charles participated in the 2019 Conference of Eu-SPRI (European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation), held in Rome on June, 5 – 7. Together with Jon Mikel Zabala Iturriagagoitia he presented a paper on “Functional Procurement for Innovation, Welfare and Sustainability” in a session on “Transformative Innovation Policy”. At another session he … Continue reading
At the Oslo Campus of the Norwegian Business School – BI, Charles made a presentation entitled “Functional Procurement for Innovation, Welfare and the Environment” on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. The presentation was based on the following report: http://www.konkurrensverket.se/contentassets/916ecd96293549589d7ae5ee2e2c0eae/forsk-rapport_2019_2-.pdf 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
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