The money relationship between companies and universities has always been a matter of debate. The fear that the independence of academics will be used to satisfy the communication and marketing plans of large corporations is not an illusion. When banks, and especially BNP Paribas, present a tarnished image because of
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Youth is on edge. This Friday, March 15, the ecological rescue will be on all the banners of the young people on strike for the climate. Schoolchildren will be joined by Manifesto students for an ecological wake-up call. Academics and scientists will join their march as they announced on March 5.
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All they have to do is look at the news feed of their favourite social network to feel up to date. A title, a picture, a few lines of introduction are enough. When it comes to information, some people are not satisfied with much. They are even more convinced than those who are going to
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On the occasion of the 9th Day without Facebook, this Thursday 28 February, author Thomas Fauré denounces the technological schizophrenia that keeps Europe happy in front of Facebook, despite the thousand revelations that have been made about it. He claims that at the heart of the Old Continent there are the means to invest in
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The social network Facebook celebrated its 15th birthday on February 4th. The role of the platform in spreading hate speech has been the subject of much debate recently. At the heart of the controversy is Myanmar, where Facebook has been used to coerce hundreds of thousands of Rohingya
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The year 2029 is off to a flying start and is the occasion for the traditional balance sheets. Last year, Apple celebrated the 20th anniversary of the iPhone (which has little in common with the one the older among us have known), entomovorous restaurants have flourished in the streets of Paris.
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On the initiative of the F-M deputies. Lambert and M. Laqhila, a colloquium is being held this February 7 at the National Assembly to question how "Accounting can serve the environmental and social transition". The political and democratic stakes are enormous because accounting is the fundamental language of organizations. But..,
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The government's draft bill on the circular economy dated 15 January leaked to the press. The result? More than twenty associations, networks and companies involved in the circular economy sent a letter to the Prime Minister on Monday 4 February asking him to revise upwards the draft bill.
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There are eighty of them. Eighty investment funds representing a mere $6.5 trillion. These are investors from KFC, McDonald's or Burger King. They threaten, in an open letter published on January 29th, to pull the rug out from under the table if the junk food giants do not fundamentally revise their copy
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Lately, Facebook has become as clinging as modern art: you either love or hate it. Some of us will use it blindly and unconditionally on a daily basis to publish photos of our recent trips to idyllic places, share memorable moments, even bombard their subscribers with publications on
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Big Data is one of the major challenges of the coming decades, so much so that companies are already starting to organize themselves to take this new phenomenon into account by devoting entire divisions to data analysis. In the past, statisticians and data analysts were responsible for collecting and analysing data.
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The Institut National de l'Économie Circulaire (INEC) unveiled its new White Paper at the 2nd edition of the "Circular Agriculture" conference organized by AFAÏA in Paris. This publication aims to capitalize on the work of the working group launched by the INEC in 2017. This group brought together
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On en parle en bien depuis plusieurs années déjà, mais le phénomène des cryptomonnaies fait aujourd’hui débat. Ces monnaies, de plus en plus utilisées par tous dans le monde entier, sont accusées d’êtres énergivores. En effet, afin de « débloquer » des bitcoins, les mineurs doivent résoudre des problèmes complexes nécessitant l’utilisation
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La comptabilité fait toujours office d’épreuve de vérité. Face à l’urgence du vivant, elle interroge nos conventions, nos calculs, notre rapport au monde. Nous sommes aujourd’hui acculés à une urgence : maintenir le vivant qui garantit l’habitabilité de la Terre. Répondre à cette urgence oblige à identifier dans nos
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In China, Western pharmaceutical multinationals still have a bright future ahead of them. But beware of the local industry, which no longer wants to confine itself to subcontracting and generics, but is in turn banking on quality and innovation. With a local pharmaceutical market estimated at 106 billion euros
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Bitcoin is regularly in the headlines. This star of the cryptodevises arouses both waves of enthusiasm, sometimes hysterical, and the darkest fears and suspicions. Two studies have just been published simultaneously, shedding new light on cryptomoney. These are energy chasms that emit in
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The Government seems determined to make France a home for fundraising in cryptomoney (ICO). In Article 26 of the PACTE Act, the government proposes to introduce a new provision in Book V of the Monetary and Financial Code on investment service providers.
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The textile industry is the second most polluting industry in the world. Existing recycling solutions are not sufficient to solve the problems raised by resource management in this sector. The circular economy would provide relevant solutions to meet the challenges faced by the textile industry: prevention actions, reuse,
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Current recycling technologies are limited for plastic polymers, resulting in either poor quality recycling or high processing costs. But enzymes now offer a glimmer of hope since the discovery in Japan a few years ago of the "Ideonella" bacterium.
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The latest TIPA survey reveals that consumers, while also feeling responsible, expect more from government and retail industry players in the fight to reduce the number of single-use plastic packaging, which is mostly non-recycled and non-recyclable. They also declare their readiness to make use of
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