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Coronavirus. Covid-19. Pandemic. A urgent topic now both in the public media all around the world and in our daily conversations. Infected or not, it still contaminated our lives. It changed what we believed as „normal”. It divided our existence into „Befo ...

2020

Switzerland: Economic aspects of a transition to a 1.5°C world

Philippe Thalmann

The questions we are asked relating to climate policy Our workhorse: GEMINI-E3 Some results of our research ...

2019

Comparing habitats: Reframing comparison in the “Post-disciplinary” era

Elena Cogato Lanza, Florence Graezer Bideau, Martina Barcelloni Corte

In recent decades, cities and territories have radically changed; the ecological, societal and technological transition has opened up an entirely new season of thinking in the field of urbanism, entailing a necessary and deep revision of tools, categories ...

http://contourjournal.org2019

Smart specialisation strategies and industrial modernisation in European regions-theory and practice

Dominique Foray

Based on a seminal policy paper (Foray et al., 2009), the Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) approach was integrated into the reformed cohesion policy of the European Union for 2014-20. This large-scale European experience provides a unique case study of ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2018

Business Models and Complexity

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi, Lorenzo Massa

Purpose: To offer a -necessarily non-exhaustive- analysis of the meaning and significance of the notion of a complex system for research on the Business Model (BM). Design/Methodology/Approach: Conceptual paper Findings: Drawing from early research in comp ...

2018

Transition of the Swiss Phosphorus System towards a Circular EconomyPart 2: Socio-Technical Scenarios

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Jonas Ramon Mehr

A transition towards a circular economy of phosphorus (P) in Switzerland is a multi-faceted challenge as P use is subject to a variety of influencing factors comprising policy interventions, consumption trends, or technological innovations on different spa ...

2018

The Hermenutic Circle of Data Visualization

Dario Rodighiero

According to Don Ihde (1990, 80–97), hermeneutic relations are a specific kind of technologically mediated I-world relations in which the technology must be “read” and “interpreted” in order to access the world. More recently, Peter-Paul Verbeek (2010, 145 ...

2018

Molecular engineering of face-on oriented dopant-free hole transporting material for perovskite solar cells with 19% PCE

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Sanghyun Paek, Giulia Grancini, Kyung Taek Cho, Kasparas Rakstys, Paul Gratia

Through judicious molecular engineering, novel dopant-free star-shaped D-pi-A type hole transporting materials coded KR355, KR321, and KR353 were systematically designed, synthesized and characterized. KR321 has been revealed to form a particular face-on o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Practical control methods for vacuum driven soft actuator modules

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson

Vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuator (VSPA) Modules have been described to afford advantages for rapid development of reconfigurable, multi-DoF soft pneumatic robots powered by vacuum by reducing their logistical complexity, however they also present new ...

2017

The Ends of The Internet

Boris Beaude

The Ends of the Internet is an investigation into all the reasons why the Internet, which has been with us for over thirty years, is now on the verge of disappearing. Originally conceived as a space of freedom, the Internet has become the world’s largest p ...

Institute of Network Cultures2016

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