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Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eileen Hazboun, Silvia Hostettler

Technological innovation is vital for finding solutions to key challenges the world is facing. Climate change, pollution, disease, rising inequalities, and chronic poverty all need to be addressed. We need renewable energy sources, efficient transport netw ...

Springer2015

Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique

Benjamin Michelon

Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...

EPFL2012

Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Development

Jean-Claude Bolay

The introductory chapter of the book studies the links between technologies and development, which should first have to address the contribution of modern technologies to sustainable development in all its environmental, social and economic aspects, in ord ...

Springer2012

Slum Upgrading in developing countries

Jean-Claude Bolay

The slum question is at the very heart to urban planning and social development. The urban growth takes place primarily in developing countries. Around one billion of people (with a perspective of 2 billion in 2030), the third of the world’s total urban po ...

2011

Technology and urban issues: What type of development is appropriate for cities of the South?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

This paper deals with technologies, catalysts for change, and their links to development. Indeed, particularly for developing and emerging countries, scientific and technological breakthroughs create wonderful opportunities, but they may also convey risks ...

2011

Slum Upgrading Interdisciplinary Perspective and Intersectoral Action

Jean-Claude Bolay

The slum question is not marginal to urban planning and social development – it is at its very heart. All the more so now that urban growth takes place primarily in developing countries in which populations move from rural to urban regions at a very fast p ...

2011

Tabriz - La mixité programmatique dans le contexte d'une ville islamique (Iran)

Sanam Leisiazar

Dramatic growth of urban populations in the developing countries is being a challenging issue in the upcoming decades. Tabriz is one of those megacities in the northwest of Iran with a rapid rate of development and modernization. As a consequence an urban- ...

2011

ICTs and Participation in Developing Countries

Jean-Claude Bolay, Alexandre Repetti

Developing cities are experiencing substantial gaps in urban planning. They are due to approaches and instruments that do not correspond to the realities of the developing city including the prevalence of informal sector and slums, urban governance problem ...

IGI Global2010

Governing the dynamics of the network industries

Matthias Finger, Marc Laperrouza, Nicolas Crettenand

This paper wants to further develop the theory of co-evolution between technology and institutions in the network industries by addressing one of the critiques that is generally raised, namely the lack of taking into account its dynamics. The paper outline ...

Discussion paper series on the coherence between institutions and technologies in infrastructures2010

Northern and southern innovativity: a comparison across European and Latin American countries

Stéphane Lhuillery, Julio Diego Salvador Raffo

This paper compares the role of innovation and economic performance across European and Latin American countries, using firm-level data from France, Spain, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. We implement a standard structural model linking R&D inte ...

2008