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Voices from the Frontline: Revealing the AI Practitioners' viewpoint on the European AI Act

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in an ever larger number of industries. Alongside this development, however, abundant works argue that AI-driven systems are lacking in terms of safety, ethics and transparency. As a direct consequence, the ...

2024

Climate-Neutral Aviation: how will it affect communities, companies, citizens?

Sascha Nick

Science tells us that a climate-responsible aviation is much smaller, given the urgency and limited contribution of future efficiency gains and biofuels. If flying becomes more exceptional and expensive, how can we collectively prepare, and what will this ...

2023

Living industrial heritage in a persistent company town.

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

In recent decades, industrial heritage has gained notoriety among the richness of heritage narratives. However, its promotion is primarily done by the production entities and business archives, and less attention is given to the significant contribution of ...

2023

Conditions of habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the industrial cities and their productive habitats

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

A company town can be defined as a settlement completely owned by an entrepreneur or a company, which builds and manages the community following business and production needs, coordinating all the facilities, including the houses, stores, the school, and e ...

2022

The Biopolitics of Habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the Industrial Cities and Their Productive Habitats

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Company towns are cities founded during the Industrial Revolution by single enterprises operating as employers and landlords, enforcers of security, promoters of social harmony, and providers of services and goods for workers to enhance the living and heal ...

2022

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

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

Towards companies that perform within the earth’s regenerative capacity COMPANIES THAT PERFORM WITHIN THE EARTH’S REGENERATIVE CAPACITY

The latest Living Planet Report of WWF shows that we used the regenerative capacity of 1.5 planets in 2010 at present consumption levels. An increasing number of companies set targets to lower the impact of their activities on the environment, but such tar ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Torn between international competition and municipal claims: Analysing key influence factors on municipal utilities’ business strategies in the German and Swiss energy transition

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

After the nuclear accident in Fukushima, amongst others Germany and Switzerland decided to accelerate the sustainability transition of their energy systems not only by expanding the share of renewables actively but also by quitting nuclear power. Regarding ...

2017

Experiences of small electronics companies to underpin circular economy approaches by means of simplified life cycle indicators

The term “Circular Economy” gains ground currently not only among large companies but also among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Suitable metrics are required to address circular economy effects in the product design process or for communication ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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