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Dinosaurs in transition? A conceptual exploration of local incumbents in the swiss and German energy transition

The understanding of incumbents' behaviour in sustainability transitions in the energy sector is gaining increasing scholarly attention. However, two key structural characteristics of many incumbents in the energy sector are hardly taken into account: they ...

2019

The hydropower-Europe forum and the technology roadmap

Anton Schleiss

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 ...

2018

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Public enterprises operate in the area between the opposing poles of state and market. On the one hand they must meet a wide range of political expectations, and on the other they must fulfil commercial efficiency criteria. This dissertation addresses how ...

EPFL2017

Open Innovation in the Public Sector: Review and Integration of the Management and Public Administration Literatures

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi, Diane Poulin

This paper develops linkages and bilateral influences between the “open innovation” paradigm and research in Public Administration. To this end, the article aims to investigate the different areas of interest of the Public Administration literature to unde ...

2017

INFRASTRUCTURE – A CRUCIAL KEY FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY, SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE

Due to its significant contribution to socioeconomic development, its huge environmental impacts and its key role in a functioning economy, adequate infrastructure development is vital for our sustainable future. The way infrastructure such as roads, sewag ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

The Significance of Corporate Social Disclosure for High-Tech Manufacturing Companies: Focus on Employee and Community Aspects of Sustainable Development

Gökan May

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

Producer cooperatives influence on competitive dynamics: the Azorean case

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, I aim at understanding how producer cooperatives compete in the factor markets; and second, I analyse how producer cooperatives influence the competitive dynamics of the markets where they compete. With this paper w ...

2016

Governing Energy Transitions: Transition Goals in the Swiss Energy Sector

Matthias Finger, Reinier Verhoog

European countries are currently committing to energy transitions so as to make the supply of electricity more sustainable. In this chapter we present our theoretical extension of a transition framework with the concepts of power, agency and politics in or ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Analytical sensing platforms with inkjet printed electrodes

Hubert Girault, Frédéric Gumy, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic, Sunny Isaïe Maye

Disposable amperometric electrode chips enable the rapid, cost-effective and reliable monitoring of the concentration of analytes in fluidic samples. One example of high relevance in the health sector is the detection of hydrophilic antioxidants in fruit j ...

2016

Yes, no, maybe: the ambiguous relationship between State-owned Enterprise and the State

Matthias Finger, Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Liberalization and the introduction of sector-specific regulators has caused the position of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) of network industries to change not only within national economies, but also vis-a-vis their respective States. In response, many SO ...

Wiley_Blackwell2015

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