College of Management of Technology

Are there bias against foreign firms in patent examination decisions?

Published:25.02.20 — Further to the International Geneva (IG) Award by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) received by Prof. Gaétan de Rassenfosse back in December 2019, his paper “Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?” was recently published in the Journal of Law & Economics.

New Results on Sharing Economy Presented at 53rd HICSS Conference

Published:17.02.20 — Prof. Weber presented his latest paper on “Nonlinear Pricing of Shareable Products” in the SITES mini-track at the 53rd Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) on January 8, 2020. In this research, he develops a robust way to segment (or “screen”) a heterogeneous consumer base by jointly using the instruments of retail price and sharing tariff.

The Grand Transition – what will come after capitalism?

Published:06.02.20 — The IML at EPFL invited a special guest, Guido Palazzo, Professor of business ethics of HEC University of Lausanne, to give an inspiring lecture on “Managing the grand transition”, addressed principally to Operations and Supply Chain Managers of the IML Executive Master class.

New Hands-On Graduate Course Links Engineering and Management

Published:03.02.20 — First successful edition of a joint Masters course between STI and CDM to expose students to entrepreneurial challenges by designing a product to be marketed.