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I.C.T. and Environment : Bad Assumptions and Recent Hypotheses
Rodhain, Florence; Fallery, Bernard - HAL - 2011
The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information Communication Technology. In the first part, we will present, through a review of the literature, the rather negative role played by ICT on the environment: paper, transportation,...
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The world upside down
Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012
R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654257
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Research universities, technology transfer, and job creation: what infrastructure, for what training?
Brodhag, Christian - HAL - 2013
Technology transfer and innovation are considered major drivers of sustainable development; they place knowledge and … universities, and how they can interact with key actors and institutions involved in 'innovation ecosystems'. Considering various … approaches of innovation and institutional analysis design (IAD), it proposes an institutional model of innovation where …
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ISO 14001 implementation: translation process and organizational change
Reverdy, Thomas - HAL - 2006
The purpose of this study is to find out how local translations of a generic management system reduce organizational uncertainties, produce technical and organizational knowledge, and introduce cooperative relations, cross-functional learning and problem identification and solving. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789403
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Lean production: the link between supply chain and sustainable development in an international environment
Ravet, Denise - HAL - 2011
While there could be separate streams of established research on lean production, global supply chain and sustainable development, the idea is to address the intersection of these strategic initiatives. The aim of the mission is to explore the link between sustainable development, global supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547609
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Assessing the compliance of a product with an eco-label: from standards to constraints
Ngouna, Raymond Houé; Grabot, Bernard - HAL - 2009
The new awareness of the consumers regarding environmental issues should allow companies to gain a competitive advantage by obtaining eco-labels which certify the low impact of a product on the environment. Getting such label requires to analyse a product according to rules expressed in natural...
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The Environmental Violence of Volatility
Bouleau, Nicolas - HAL - 2013
Since the Brundtland report in 1987, at the start of the series of United Nations Conferences on the Environment and Development, the world population has grown by more than it was in the time of Adam Smith. Oil consumption has increased by 40% and the trend is similar for other exhaustible...
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Comparative study regarding the evolution of the foreign direct investments in central and eastern Europe region's countries.
Gavrila-Paven, Ionela - HAL - 2007
In this paper, we question whether there is a catch-up effect or announcement effecting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the European Union (EU) to the ten EU accession countries. We study FDI outflows for Romania, a small economy with few historical ties to Eastern Europe, and compare FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780804
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High Speed Rail contribution to Sustainable Mobility
Baron, Thomas - HAL - 2009
In a context of climate change, increase in mobility and growing budgetary constraints, projects that fit with the pillars of sustainable development will be the only to be envisaged. This study aims to demonstrate to authorities the advantages of High Speed Rail as a comparison with other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618112
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Sustainable Development: Elements for its interpretation.
Coto, María José Asensio; Moreno, Olga Minguez - HAL - 2007
The contents and scope of Sustainable Development, as a model for the development towards which the international community wants to move forward, is the object of multiple interpretations. That way both, diagnosis of sustainability and the design, execution and assessment of actions aimed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820517