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Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism
The extractive logic of Big Data-driven technology and knowledge production has raised serious concerns. While most criticism initially focused on the impacts on Western societies, attention is now increasingly turning to the consequences for communities i ...
Thousand Oaks2023Innovations Practitioners Need for Circularity in the Swiss Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Sector
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf
Although widely recognized as imperative for reducing global emissions and the amount of waste generated by the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector, a large-scale shift from a linear to a circular economy has not yet happened in practi ...
2023Soft Sensorized Physical Twin for Harvesting Raspberries
Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kai Christian Junge
The use of robotic systems for harvesting of crops is a growing application domain in the agriculture sector. A key challenge is to develop robotic systems to harvest soft fruits such as raspberries which require delicate handling as they are easily damage ...
2022Doping challenges and pathways to industrial scalability of III–V nanowire arrays
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Valerio Piazza, Wonjong Kim
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been investigated for decades, but their application into commercial products is still difficult to achieve, with triggering causes related to the fabrication cost and structure complexity. Dopant control at the nanoscale ...
2021Raw Materials and Sustainable Development Goals: the EU Policy Contribution
Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations for 2030 (UN General Assembly 2015) could not be reached without the contribution of raw materials. Raw materials are fuelling the manufacturing sector and creating jobs and value a ...
Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms
Economic growth is increasingly explained and driven by knowledge acquisition and firmsâ capabilities to adapt to new evolving situations to fit economic, societal and environmental frames. Strategic behavior of private companies in differentiating and p ...
EPFL2019Exergy analysis of the Colombian energy matrix: An insight from its economic sectors and energy resources
Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego
In this paper, the exergy analysis of the Colombian energy matrix for the years 1975,1993, 2012 and 2016 is developed, based on data measured by the Colombian Planning Office of Mining and Energy (UPME) along with the reported values of the general exergy ...
2019The hydropower-Europe forum and the technology roadmap
A new EU initiative, Hydropower-Europe, is reported here. This work, soon to be launched, will provide a framework for the hydropower sector in Europe to define a research and innovation agenda, and technology roadmap. The initiative is expected to help po ...
2018Towards a sustainable development licence to operate for the extractive sector
The extractive sector now holds an even more predominant position for national economies following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The sector can make significant contributions to the achievement of a large number of these Goals. ...
Springer Heidelberg2017The Significance of Corporate Social Disclosure for High-Tech Manufacturing Companies: Focus on Employee and Community Aspects of Sustainable Development
Addressing a global key sector area - the high technology manufacturing sector - we examine if there is truly a benefit of corporate social disclosure to the bottom line of organizations within this sector and if stakeholders should devote more attention t ...
Wiley2017