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Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching

Capital ages and must eventually be replaced. We propose a theory of financing in which firms borrow to finance investment and deleverage as capital ages to have enough financial slack to finance replacement investments. To achieve these dynamics, firms is ...

Lausanne2024

An Ontology-based Engineering system to support aircraft manufacturing system design

Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

During the conceptual design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial scenarios need to be evaluated against performance indicators in a collaborative engineering process. Domain experts' knowledge and the motivations for decision-ma ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Big company, Small town. Spatial and Social Capital in a Persistent Company Town.

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Something that is not much discussed when talking about Dalmine is the impact of its production as a supply chain sustaining extractive operations that also serve as a dominance and land exploitation mechanism. For instance, Dalmine supplied various oil an ...

2023

International PhD Seminar Post-extraction territories in transition: Designing the socio-ecological transition in post carbon marginal spaces

Paola Viganò, Elena Cogato Lanza, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

The Seminar proposes a European and transatlantic dialogue around the questions of the social and ecological transition (post-carbon) of marginal spaces, and territories of exploitation as the ancient coal territories on the two sides of the Atlantic. Th ...

2022

Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Artur Perek, Wouter Vijvers

Divertor detachment and alternative divertor magnetic geometries are predicted to be promising approaches to handle the power exhaust of future fusion devices. In order to understand the detachment process caused by volumetric losses in alternative diverto ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity

Ling Zhou

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 ...

EPFL2021

Free Movement of Inventors: Open-Border Policy and Innovation in Switzerland

Francesco Lissoni, Gabriele Cristelli

We study the innovation effects of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP), signed by Switzerland and the EU in 1999. Using geocoded patent data, complemented by matched inventor-immigrant-census records, we identify a large number of cross-bo ...

2020

A Digital Platform connecting Academia and Small Businesses: An opportunity for Knowledge Management Experiments

Quentin Adrien Cavillier

Digital transformation is one of the biggest phenomena of this decade. One enabler of this revolution was cloud computing. Today, software engineers can deliver software as a service (SaaS), which is accessible to users through the Internet. Slack, Shopify ...

EPFL2019

In Situ Electrochemical Oxidation of Cu2S into CuO Nanowires as a Durable and Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Kevin Sivula, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Ting Zhang, Yong Zuo

Development of cost-effective oxygen evolution catalysts is of capital importance for the deployment of large-scale energy-storage systems based on metal-air batteries and reversible fuel cells. In this direction, a wide range of materials have been explor ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Giovanni Colavizza

A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an eve ...

EPFL2018

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