Publications des institutions partenaires
Outward R&D spillovers in the home country: the role of reverse knowledge transfer
This study examines how foreign R&D investment may explain interfirm variations in productivity performance of home country firms in terms of spillovers. Many have studied spillovers from MNCs to host country’s firms, but there is still scarce evidence on spillovers from outward FDI to the home country. This study analyzes spillovers from foreign R&D investment and hypothesizes…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/10/2017
Scope effects in contingent valuation: : does the assumed statistical distribution of WTP matter?
Economic theory assumes that willingness to pay (WTP) increases with the quantity of the consumed good. This implies that there should be a scope effect in contingent valuation studies. However, in previous issues of Ecological Economics, several authors criticized the contingent valuation (CV) method for the absence of such effect or its inadequacy. In this paper, we contribute to…
Institution partenaire
English / 09/10/2017
How vulnerable is risk aversion to wealth, health and other risks? ::an empirical analysis for Europe
This paper empirically assesses how financial risk aversion reacts to a change in individuals’ wealth and health and to the introduction of both financial and health risks using the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Individuals in our sample exhibit financial risk aversion decreasing both in wealth and health. Financial risk aversion is also found to…
Institution partenaire
English / 25/09/2017
Optimal design and pricing of e-services
Ideally, the price of a service should take into account the cost structure, the perceived value to customers and the competition. Apparently, the only method satisfying these properties which is valid even for non-homogeneous services was proposed by Debély et al. (2008) and Fragnière et al. (2008). However, this method has a major drawback: to be able to construct the model, one…
Institution partenaire
English / 25/09/2017
SME Internationalization and distant emerging economies: : exploring the market entry role of asian global cities
This paper suggests a tentative conceptual framework to study the internationalization of foreign/OECD-based SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) attracted by fast growing emerging markets, such as China and other Asian economies, and the supportive role of global cities as market gate focal points providing a wide range of financial and non-financial services facilitating…
Institution partenaire
English / 19/09/2017
Program understanding models ::an historical overview and a classification
During the last three decades several hundred papers have been published on the broad topic of “program comprehension”. The goal was always the same: to develop models and tools to help developers with program understanding during program maintenance. However few authors targeted the more fundamental question: “what is program understanding” or, other words, proposed a model of…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/09/2017
On the efficiency of school tracking: : a perspective from outcomes in dual VET in Switzerland
In this paper, we examine the efficiency of the sort done by the Swiss lower secondary school tracking system, looking at students’ outcomes in dual vocational education and training (VET)—the most common education type at the upper secondary level in the country. We discuss a simple Ricardian model about the process of school tracking based on the absolute advantage (i.e., the…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/09/2017
A process for co-creating shared value with the crowd: tourism case studies from a regional innovation system in western Switzerland
Despite the presence of a regional innovation system, the gross value added attributed to tourism in the Swiss region of Valais is declining. Innovation policies fostering private initi-atives and collaboration between companies, researchers, and coaching services have been reinforced recently, and policy instruments are in place to support strategic indus-tries. However, no…
Institution partenaire
English / 11/09/2017
Students’ perception of the flipped classroom ::teaching consumer behavior and market research classes in two Swiss Universities
Marketing instructors have traditionally sought to use experiential and active learning methods in their teaching. The flipped classroom is a learner-centered innovative pedagogical approach that moves the delivery of class material outside the classroom to focus on collaborative activities during class sessions. This qualitative exploratory research aims at understanding how…
Institution partenaire
English / 28/08/2017
Collaborative demand forecasting with integration of event-based judgements
Mathematical forecasting approaches can lead to reliable demand forecast in some environments by extrapolating regular patterns in time-series. However, unpredictable events that do not appear in historical data can reduce the usefulness of mathematical forecasts for demand planning purposes. Since forecasters have partial knowledge of the context and of future events, grouping and…
Institution partenaire
English / 19/06/2017
Trade, growth, and welfare impacts of the CFTA in Africa
This paper provides a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of the likely effects of a Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) in six African countries. Our analysis considers four incremental liberalisation scenarios. The first scenario consist in the elimination of tariffs for agricultural goods. In the second scenario we add the elimination of tariffs on manufactured goods. The…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2017
An interdisciplinary approach for cultural heritage valorisation and visualization
City-Zen is an interactive temporal knowledge-browsing platform that aims to valorise cultural heritages. While many organizations propose relevant data sets, they are hardly accessed, analysed and reused because of the formats inconsistency and the inappropriate information browsing and visualization. The goal of the project is to valorise the existing cultural heritage through a…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2017
Modeling Swiss SMI's experience of performance measurement
The purpose of this paper is to examine performance measurement through the current key performance indicators’ (KPIs’) best practices applied by Swiss small and medium industries (SMIs) active in discrete manufacturing. The methodology used for this study was mainly based on the completion of an online survey that was statistically analyzed with a focus on the main KPIs used to…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2017
The credit commons ::a commoning protocol of monsters
The Commons discussion proliferates on natural resources and material reproduction. When this discussion happens, it tends to distance itself from the “digital commons”, as the latter should be understood as something different: an area of instability, of undefined laws, or even of abuse. We would like to contribute to a law of the commons discussion with an approach that considers…
Institution partenaire
English / 08/05/2017
CoWaBoo ::a descriptive protocol of learning driven applications
Algorithms, data, services seem to create a net of semantic stability for users to consume information but come with concrete disadvantages regarding the way we understand, discuss and teach them. Social bookmarking applications are no exception to this, as they follow a similarly opaque way to organize and publish data. This article will examine the possibility to shift from…
Institution partenaire
English / 08/05/2017
The what and the how of research data management ::towards a unified view of train-the-trainer competencies
Institution partenaire
English / 24/04/2017
Data streams in linked.swissbib.ch ::the Swiss metacatalog in the linked open data cloud
Institution partenaire
English / 24/04/2017
On the shape of non-monetary measures for risks
This paper investigates how welfare losses for facing risks change as a function of the number of risk exposures. To that aim, we define the risk apportionment of order n (RA-n) utility premium as a measure of pain associated with facing the passage from one risk to a riskier one. Changes in risks are expressed through the specific concept of stochastic dominance of order n defined…
Institution partenaire
English / 09/03/2017
Effect of the named entity recognition and sliding window on the HONcode automated detection of HONcode criteria for mass health online content
The Health On the Net’s Foundation (HON) Code of Conduct, HONcode, is the oldest and the most used ethical and trustworthy code for medical and health related information available on the Internet. Until recently, websites voluntarily applying for the HONcode seal were evaluated manually by an expert medical team according to 8 principles, referred to as criteria, and associated…
Institution partenaire
English / 24/11/2016
Recasting “wikinomics” in educational environments ::case studies in the wikinomics project
Institution partenaire
English / 21/11/2016
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