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How to think of sustainability when planning and building new ventures?

How to think of sustainability when planning and building new ventures? How to use systems thinking tools to understand the world, and the place of your new venture in it? Why most corporate sustainability initiatives are of marginal impact, and sometimes ...

2023

Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place

Maxime Carl Felder

Familiarity is an elusive concept, capturing what we know intimately and what we only recognize from having seen before. This article aims to disambiguate these interpretations by proposing a sociological conceptualization of familiarity as a dynamic relat ...

2021

What about the ethics of applying artificial intelligence to bodies?

Images convey, through representations of bodies, in the press, cinema and art, one or more gender imaginaries while acting as vectors in the process of globalization. The recurrence or similarity of some of these images reveals the diffusion or persistenc ...

2021

Activity-based modeling and simulation of epidemics

Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Rico Krüger

The SARS-CoV-2 outburst in March 2020 has led to the lockdown of several countries across the world. Mobility restrictions have been constantly put into action and reversed to find the trade-off between minimizing the number of infections and death and mit ...

2021

Applying the IHA Hydropower Sustainability ESG Gap Analysis Tool (HESG) to the Planning and Implementation Phases

Hydropower has a long track record of providing affordable and reliable electricity to various regions of the world throughout the decades. However, diversity in the type of hydropower plant installations results in an array of social, environmental and ec ...

2021

A semantic-driven approach toward Industry 4.0

Sangje Cho

The current manufacturing trend is towards sustainability. Due to the degradation of natural resources and the accumulation of waste with an increase in the world population and in the consumption of goods, many countries attempt to switch from a linear to ...

EPFL2020

Home Sweet World. Z Architektami Z False Mirror Office Rozmawia Katarzyna Mikulska [a Dialogue between False Mirror Office and Katarzyna Mikulska]

Boris Hamzeian, Filippo Fanciotti, Giovanni Glorialanza

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

The triangular value of patents

Albina Khairullina

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 ...

EPFL2020

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

Agency conflicts around the world

Erwan Morellec, Boris Nikolov

We use a dynamic model of financing decisions to measure agency conflicts for a large panel of 12,652 firms from 14 countries. Our estimates show that agency conflicts are large and vary significantly across firms and countries. Differences in agency confl ...

2018

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