Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to develop industrial capabilities in essential sectors such as pharmaceuticals. At the outset, they shared some common features: a considerable period of lax intellectual property rights regimes, large internal...

There is an emerging body of literature that examines how pro-poor product innovations should be created and what business models should accompany them. However, there is little on actual implementation practises and the present paper attempts to fill this void by analyzing the findings of the...

[eng] A wide approach of the irreversibility effect : an application on the conservation of biodiversity. . A decision takes on the characteristics of irreversibility to the extent that it shrinks the space of available options. The irreversibility effect presented by Henry [1974] and further...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the national objective of India and Brazil has been to develop industrial capabilities in essential sectors such as pharmaceuticals. At the outset, they shared some common features: a considerable period of lax intellectual property rights regimes, large internal...

This paper interests itself in a ?game of chicken? involving heterogeneous players. More precisely, it examines the conditions for the initiation and engagement of cooperative agreements between two types of economic agents: (i) those with a standard rationality (maximization of own payoffs);...

Do firms need to sacrifice profit while innovating in order to further social objectives, as corporate social responsibility (CSR) would seem to suggest? To answer this question, the paper compiles a classification of innovations according to market impact and CSR potential. Then it details case...

There is an emerging body of literature that examines how pro-poor product innovations should be created and what business models should accompany them. However, there is little on actual implementation practises and the present paper attempts to fill this void by analyzing the findings of the...

Cette note traite d’une controverse théorique concernant la formation d’accords internationaux en environnement entre pays en présence de problèmes de pollution transfrontalière. La littérature issue de la théorie des jeux non coopératifs met en avant la thèse des « petites...

Cette note traite d’une controverse théorique concernant la formation d’accords internationaux en environnement entre pays en présence de problèmes de pollution transfrontalière. La littérature issue de la théorie des jeux non coopératifs met en avant la thèse des « petites...