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Institutionnalisme

Publications associées (16)

Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland

Denise Bertschi

Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...

EPFL2024

Représenter l'invention : Étude de l'évolution du dessin d'objet technique en Angleterre (ca. 1750-1850)

Yohann Michel Franck Guffroy

This thesis focuses on English invention drawings between 1750 and 1850. These visual documents offer a perspective on a technical aesthetic linked to the rise of English machinery at the turn of the 19th century. In this work, I focus on two specific corp ...

EPFL2023

The right to housing? The antinomies of social housing between public and private

Sila Karatas

What is social housing, is it a right or a property? Is it guaranteed for all by welfare state or non-governmental organizations or a commodity in capitalist production and market relations? According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, h ...

2021

Metropolitan Innovation Systems: Inquiry into the co-evolving relations between Industry, University and Government

Jiayun Shen

Innovation is crucial and decisive for the long-term development of a metropolitan region in the global economy. While firms certainly play a significant role in the development of specific innovation, the environment that nur-tures innovative firms and di ...

EPFL2020

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

Charles Chadi Ayoubi

This thesis presents four essays providing novel empirical and theoretical insights on the incentives and institutional structures that favor knowledge production and diffusion. The first two studies analyze these processes in the realm of scientific resea ...

EPFL2020

The institutional challenges of scaling-up housing retrofit: the Swiss cities of Basel and Sion

Eghbal Arian Mahzouni

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the nexus between two societal (sub) systems of housing and energy supply to shed new light on the key institutional barriers to socio-technical energy transition in the built environment. The key research question is to ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Enzymatic hydrolysis of microwave assisted acid pretreated chili postharvest residue for the production of value added products

Edgard Gnansounou, Kavita Ashokkumar Pandey

Agricultural crop residues serve as a renewable source for production of bioethanol and other value added chemicals. Optimization of enzymatic saccharification may ensure cost-effective production of bioethanol and other industrially important products. He ...

NATL INST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION-NISCAIR2018

Resistance & Compromise : Spatial & Aesthetic Approaches of Alternative Cultural Spaces in Lisbon, Ljubljana & Geneva

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Contemporary architecture and urbanism concern everyday life in multiple contradictory ways. Floating between alienation and hope, post-industrial and other interstices often hold beautiful and poetic aesthetics of decay, attracting people driven by curios ...

EPFL2016

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer

This study concerns the economics of innovation in the area of medical innovation -new diagnostics, medicines and vaccines-, and in particular how innovation contributes to meeting public health needs. Significant advances have taken place in medical scien ...

EPFL2015

Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

The work described is part of a long term program of introducing institutional robotics, a novel framework for the coordination of robot teams that stems from institutional economics concepts. Under the framework, institutions are cumulative sets of persis ...

2014

An Institutional Personal Learning Environment Enabler

Denis Gillet, Laurent Moccozet

In this paper, we first discuss the concept of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) with respect to higher- education institutions and Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). This discussion rapidly confronts us to the place of the PLE and self-directed learn ...

2012

Multi-level governance and transport policy: the case of local roads in Italy

Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos

Italy is a multi-level polity where policymaking and implementation involves both public and private actors. Both territorial and functional decentralisation have an impact on the final results of policy making. In fact, territorial decentralisation implie ...

2012

Recent Architectural Competitions for Collective Housing in Switzerland : Impact of this Framework on Architectural Conception and Innovation

Antigoni Katsakou

Architectural competitions have a long tradition in Switzerland that is usually cited as one of the European countries with the largest numbers of competition procedures per year, along with Germany and some Northern countries – Finland, Denmark and Sweden ...

EPFL2011

The facilitation of mini and small hydropower in Switzerland through institutional mechanisms

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand

Within the context of the liberalisation of the electricity sector, the government’s aim to increase renewable energy sources and post-Kyoto regulation, this paper aims to identify and develop institutional mechanisms to facilitate mini and small hydropowe ...

2010

The facilitation of small hydropower in Switzerland: shaping the institutional framework

Nicolas Crettenand

The paper aims to contribute towards further shaping of the institutional framework in Switzerland in order to facilitate the development of small hydropower (

2010

Transnational practices to benefit local science and technology: Empirical evidence of the Colombian scientific diaspora

Gabriela Tejada Guerrero

Within the current context of globalisation, trasnationalism has acquired importance as a social phenomenon and an object of study, since it shows the value that the diasporas' own decentralized mechanisms have in promoting development in the countries of ...

2008