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Risk governance and the low-carbon transition

This IRGC policy brief focuses on the risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon society and economy. It is based on a multi-stakeholder expert workshop held in September 2020. It incorporates views and insights from academia, industry, non-gover ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2021

Designing, Aligning, and Visualizing Service Systems

Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Service is a concept that separates the concerns of an organization into (1) the value created for users and (2) the way the organization manages its resources to provide this value. The discipline of management of information technology (IT) uses services ...

EPFL2018

Social Capital And Mutual Versus Public Benefit: The Case Of Renewable Energy Cooperatives

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

One potential major role of social economy organizations in sustainability transitions is the creation and mobilization of social capital. Yet, the social economy gathers very distinct organizational models which may be associated with different types and ...

Wiley2017

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

Adapt and Adopt: An Experiment in Making Best Practices Adequate in an Organization

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Nelly Burrin

So called best practices promise many advantages to organizations that adopt them. Reusing these practices, however, requires their adaptation to the specific context of each organization. This adaptation means that for a specific organization, the practic ...

2007

Cooperative and redundant roles of VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3 signaling in adult lymphangiogenesis

Melody Swartz, Joseph Rutkowski, Miriella Carmela Pasquier

Activation of vascular endothelial growth factor ( VEGF) receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) by VEGF-C initiates lymphangiogenesis by promoting lymphatic proliferation and migration. However, it is unclear whether VEGFR-3 signaling is required beyond these initial stages ...

Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology2007