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Monopoly Pricing with Unknown Demand
The optimal pricing of goods, especially when they are new and the innovating firm is a monopolist, must proceed without precise knowledge of the demand curve. This paper provides a pricing method with a relative robustness guarantee by maximizing a perfor ...
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The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a broadly distributed interbacterial weapon that can be used to eliminate competing bacterial populations. Although unarmed target populations are typically used to study T6SS function in vitro, bacteria most likely e ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023Opportunities in Critical Rare Earth Metal Recycling Value Chains for Economic Growth with Sustainable Technological Innovations
Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Ajay Bhagwan Patil
Rare earth elements (REEs) are often referred to as the industrial vitamins and the key drivers of the industry 4.0 revolution. The current global supply chain of REEs for green and high-tech applications with more than 220 metric kilotons per year involve ...
2022Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity
As an important policy instrument for guiding innovation, the patent system involves a long-standing tension between creating economic rewards for the original innovators and stifling subsequent R&D activities. The availability of new data allows us to pr ...
EPFL2021Monopsony, Wage Bargaining and the Phillips Curve
With nominal wage rigidities, it is crucial to distinguish whether wages are set by workers or firms -- whether we have monopoly or monopsony power. This paper provides a model of wage bargaining in the labour market where workers have monopoly power over ...
2020The triangular value of patents
This thesis addresses the question of a patent value from three different angles. It comprises three papers on the patent valuation methods. The patent valuation issues are well-known to the world of research and practice. However, the debates over what th ...
EPFL2020Open-Loop Power Sharing of Three-Port DC-DC Resonant Converters
Drazen Dujic, Yan-Kim Tran, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández
Multi-port DC-DC converters are an attractive solution for highly flexible and efficient interface of different elements of DC grids (e.g., sources, loads, energy storage). This paper provides an analytic solution for the natural power sharing characterist ...
IEEE2019Incremental View Maintenance for Collection Programming
Christoph Koch, Daniel Lupei, Val Tannen
In the context of incremental view maintenance (IVM), delta query derivation is an essential technique for speeding up the processing of large, dynamic datasets. The goal is to generate delta queries that, given a small change in the input, can update the ...
ACM2016IP Strategy and Use Of IP Protection Mechanisms Across Firm Size: An empirical investigation
In this paper we use data from the 2012 Innovation Strategy Survey (485 responses) to compare motives and choices with respect to IP strategy in firms with sizes ranging from micro to very large. Our results confirm significant differences across firm size ...
2016Multiperiod Sequential Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks and Utility Systems including storages
François Maréchal, Alberto Mian, Emanuele Martelli
This work proposes a sequential approach for the multi-period synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks (HEN) and Utility Systems of chemical processes and energy systems, including thermal, electric and material storage. The optimization approach is sequential ...
2016