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Metropolitan Innovation Systems: Inquiry into the co-evolving relations between Industry, University and Government

Innovation is crucial and decisive for the long-term development of a metropolitan region in the global economy. While firms certainly play a significant role in the development of specific innovation, the environment that nur-tures innovative firms and di ...

EPFL2020

Enzymatic hydrolysis of microwave assisted acid pretreated chili postharvest residue for the production of value added products

Edgard Gnansounou

Agricultural crop residues serve as a renewable source for production of bioethanol and other value added chemicals. Optimization of enzymatic saccharification may ensure cost-effective production of bioethanol and other industrially important products. He ...

NATL INST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION-NISCAIR2018

Producer Cooperatives: a Transaction Cost Economic Approach

This paper aims at positioning producer cooperatives within the Transaction Cost Economics theory, one of the most cited and prolific theories on management studies. To accomplish this goal, I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, which transact ...

Verlar Raiffeisen Schweiz2016

An Economic Analysis of Pervasive, Incentive-Based Demand Response

Karl Aberer, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya, Matteo Vasirani

Demand response (DR) emerges as one of the cheapest and greenest solutions to match supply and demand in the electricity sector. While DR has been focused on large and industrial consumers, pervasive implementation (by including residential consumers) is n ...

2015

'Peak Oil' As Classical Economic Process

François Meynard

Forecasts about 'peak oil', the limits of oil production, are the subject of controversies. 'Peak oil' forecasts are based on extrapolations of a priori chosen mathematical models fitted to field data. Scientifically that is not very sound. To clarify this ...

Multi-Science Publ Co Ltd2014

Patent-free Innovation: a review of economic works including the analysis of a recent work in the field of experimental economics

Dominique Foray

This article is inspired by the observation of a massive change of opinion on the part of economists regarding the question of the patent as a mechanism allowing an economically acceptable solution to be found to the so-called “imperfect appropriability” p ...

2013

The fragility of experiential knowledge

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While there is growing recognition that understanding knowledge is at the very heart of economics, little work has thus far been forthcoming representing in a comprehensive and coherent way its fundamental nature and wide-ranging cons ...

Edward Elgar Publishing2012

Why is it so difficult to translate innovation economics into useful and applicable policy prescriptions?

Dominique Foray

Abstract of the book: While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental question ...

National Bureau of Economic Research2012

A Self-organized Mechanism of Resource Allocation in P2P Systems

Since the performance of a system of interacting peers depends strongly on their individual contributions, the ratio between their provided and consumed resources should be set in line with the social welfare improvement, without relying on a central coord ...

Atlantis Press2012

Transformation of governance in the water sector: How to measure legitimate, efficient and effective performance?

Matthias Finger, Eva Lieberherr, Andreas Klinke

In the context of liberalization in the public utility sectors, performance criteria have mainly focused on efficiency and effectiveness. However, the realization that restructuring based on the latter criteria has not been consistently successful in the w ...

2010

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