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Can medical products be developed on a non-profit basis? Exploring product development partnerships for neglected diseases

Dominique Foray, Fabiana Visentin, Patrick Gaulé, Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer

Reliance on market forces can lead to underinvestment in social welfare enhancing innovation. The lack of new medical products in the area of neglected diseases is a case in point. R&D for neglected diseases has increased with new funding and collaboration ...

Oxford University Press2015

This paper takes a frank look at what has and has not been achieved in African language technology during the past two decades. Several questions are addressed: What was the status of technology for African languages 20 years ago? What were the major initi ...

2015

Escaping the Prior Knowledge Corridor: What shapes the Number and Variety of Market Opportunities identified before Market Entry of Technology Start-ups?

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

The choice of the firm's market environment is one of the fundamental decisions of firm founders. We study the pre-entry generation of founders' market choice sets by investigating their search for market opportunities in which the firm's technological res ...

INFORMS2013

Mobile technology for awareness of time progression and its impact on meetings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Nan Li, Himanshu Verma, Flaviu Roman

In this paper we present the motivation, design, development, and initial evaluation of a time awareness technology for meetings. As part of improving meetings effectiveness using technology, we focus on the meeting time management, and the method relies o ...

Ieee2013

Regulatory Institutions and Governance Costs

Martin Maegli

In recent decades, the European postal industry has undergone profound reforms, which aim to promote competition while simultaneously maintaining a high level of universal services for consumers. It is often put forth that market opening and the emergence ...

EPFL2012

Distributed Authentication in Anonymous Mobile Communities

Hamza Harkous

With the recent boom in smartphones technology, online social networks are going mobile. This trend urged phone manufacturers and social networking companies to seek novel business strategies to monetize from these new "gateways" and to give the users ...

2012

Managing Electricity Sourcing in Europe's Energy Intensive Industry

Luis Treviño Villarreal

Several regulatory changes in Europe's electricity sector have stimulated competition in the market. National power companies, with monopolistic structures, have evolved into competitive entities, creating increased choices for consumers. Electricity price ...

EPFL2011

Effective Nonmarket Strategies: A Model of Political Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

This proposal focuses on the firms’ political capabilities as the major determinant to effectiveness of their nonmarket strategy. The term “nonmarket strategy” is relatively young and was primarily coined by Baron (1995) referring to the fact that a firm h ...

2010

Voluntary agreement of Swiss car importers

This talk presents a case study on the voluntary agreement on emissions reduction in the Swiss transport sector. Based on expert interviews, this case deals with the motivation for signing as well as the reasons for the failure of the agreement. In contras ...

2010

The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...

EPFL2008