How to design research and innovation policies in order to address grand social challenges? What new types of policy instruments are needed? What new combinations of old and new approaches? What is the real transformative capacity of research and innovation actors? And what are the organizational dynamics and dilemmas that are associated to this new … Continue reading
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The Governance of Socio-Technical Systems: Explaining Change
Why do we see so few electric cars on our streets today in spite of the overwhelming positive views on them? Why is it so difficult to introduce electronic patient journals in our hospitals or to phase out fossil-based energy sources? How come mobile telephones were developed and expanded so rapidly in the past two … Continue reading
Innovation as a Solution to Societal Challenges
This is the title of the conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy) at Lund university, Sweden held on November 27th. The conference was opened by the founding professors of the centre, Charles Edquist and Björn Asheim and its current director Ron Boschma. With an … Continue reading