This article examines the technology transfer-based partnerships between public research organisations (sources of knowledge, innovation and technology) and users (firms, public administrations, etc.) as dynamic processes for a mutual learning. This process can provide for the R&D organisations...

Our analysis is about the role of emotions and moral values in economical analysis. We use the theory of emotions of Livet (2002) in order to understand the behaviour of individuals alternatively in the Akerlof (1991)’s model of undue obedience and in a public good experiment. We argue that...

Previous research has extensively studied the gap between environmental or social concern, and behaviour. However, measuring environmental or social dimension valuation remains challenging. This paper therefore fills this gap by measuring fair trade and organic labels valuation, using an...

The biological sciences are, sooner or later, confronted with Politics as a place of purposes definition to aim for the common life quality of human beings. They represent reciprocally a balustrade against politic roaming which would subjugate the living being to its ends. The ultimate canvas of...

French abstract: La société québécoise vieillit et la pression exercée sur les dépenses publiques, particulièrement sur celles du ministère de la Santé, nécessite un financement important. Dans les prochaines décennies, le vieillissement de la population entrainera une croissance...

Demographic projections are generally considered as more robust than all other kinds of socio-economic forecasts. But doubts are sometimes cast on their relevance, especially when strong revisions of previous projections are proposed, as done by INSEE in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to...

This paper recapitulates the broad outlines of the theoretic debate on interelations between population expansion and economic growth. It identifies breakings and continuities that led to the constitution of an independant research field. That field associates population studies and economic...