In “Dagens Arena”: Make innovation into a separate policy area!
– If you want to facilitate innovation, one difficulty is that innovation policy is not considered a separate policy area, independent of, for example, research policy, writes Charles Edquist, researcher at CIRCLE, in "Dagens Arena".
CIRCLE researcher receives ERC Starting Grant
Lea Fünfschilling, Associate Professor in Innovation Studies at Lund University, has received an ERC Starting Grant for the project ENDINGS – Towards a theory of endings in innovation studies.
Letter from the Director
A good year for CIRCLE with hybrid meetings, increased membership and renewed trust and investment by Lund University. Looking ahead at another interesting year with focus on developing PHD and Master education and fresh interdisciplinary research collaborations. But first a much needed and well-deserved break.
Call for participants to EU-SPRI early career winter school on geography of innovation
CIRCLE at Lund University, will host the EU-SPRI winter school on geography of innovation in Lund Sweden on February 7–11, 2022. Application is open until November 15, to PhD students and early career post-docs.
Academia for the benefit of society – 2021 CESAER conference
Long-term CIRCLE member Professor Helen Lawton Smith addresses representatives from 53 technical universities in 26 countries in her keynote speech at the annual CESAER conference. Speakers at the conference represent different fields, such as academia, public policy, industry, and student bodies to present a broad perspective on this year’s topic: [...]
Evaluation report states: CIRCLE contributes to the university
CIRCLE is a well-managed research centre and a growing and productive research environment with ambitions for the future.