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The major aims of the ACIC project are to provide SMEs operating within collaborative networks in industrial clusters, with a novel cost-effective approach and associated tools to enhance innovation within their organisations. This will be achieved by focusing on the following objectives:(i) develop

In a context of the increasing technicisation of police and legal investigations, the emergence of genetic analyses has substantially changed practices in this field. More generally, new professional tools are being developed, which evolve, give rise to new moral and political controversies, and cir

The tension between emancipation and alienation, between autonomous behaviour and passive consumption, has been both central and fertile in how the "digital society" has emerged and structured itself, and will likely remain so in the future. There is no lack of work on bottom-up innovation, as we

The scientific aspects of this project concern theory and methods at once. Its main objectives are: - To evolve past an ‘internalist’ history of technology, or on the contrary, excessively focused on content, to build a Web history that is social, economic, political and technical at once. - T

ETHPOL aims to understand how institutional activity governs subjects by transforming their feelings. This project unifies five researchers working on family issues, and conducting different but complementary fieldworks; they work on international adoption, surrogacy, paternity testing, IVFs refusal

The project confronts (1) cities of southern Europe (Marseille, Genoa, Bologna) and from the north (Wrockaw and Umeå), (2) cities recently designated «European Capitals of Culture« (Marseille - ECC 2013, Umeå - ECC 2014, Wrockaw - ECC 2016) and cities that were formerly elected ECC in the past (Geno

This project aims at providing an empirical description of social logic of internet appropriation in low educated populations living outside major urban areas. It revolves around three major research areas: sociability, knowledge, culture. It is based on moral values specific to popular class

Since the last half of the 20th century, intensified trade at the global level has produced important impacts on social order as well as on relationships between societies that have become increasingly interconnected. The end of the Cold War and rise of economic liberalization supported an accelerat

It is widely accepted by economists and public policymakers that the very nature of R&D and innovation activities cannot be supported by standard market mechanisms and requires corrective public intervention in order to increase the level of private investment in R&D. However, theoretically as well

This research project intends to contribute to the study of how French, German and American cities address the issue of demographic and economic decline. It takes place in a context of intensification and transformation of urban shrinkage, which is more than ever considered as a structural phenomeno

How should governments decide in the face of radical uncertainties such as those involved in climate change, energy policy, genetically modified organisms or nanotechnologies? How should scientists incorporate new, yet inconclusive evidence into their current state of knowledge and uncertainty? The

L’enjeu est de se donner les moyens descriptifs de qualifier cet apport : un habiter vis-à-vis duquel on se sent responsable du fait d’avoir pris part aux conditions et au processus de sa formation ; plus encore, un habiter dont on est ontologiquement partie prenante au sens où il constitue lui-même

Petitioning is considered as one of the oldest and widespread form of « unconventional » political participation in liberal democracies . However , few specific studies have been devoted to it (however : Neiman , Gottdiener , 1982; Contamin 2001 and 2013) , in compared to studies devoted to « conven

Descitech The project explores how an alliance between Science and Design can open new avenues for the development and appropriation of scientific knowledge by the different actors of society. For this, the project is organized on the confrontation of design disciplines (design and engineering) disc

We aim to advance the rapidly developing international research frontier on category emergence through the study of institutional work, notably material and visual means of legitimation. We will also contribute to the disciplinary interface between management and corporate law. As for practice impac