Le Plan climat présenté par Nicolas Hulot le 6 juillet dernier donnait une place centrale à l’économie circulaire, révolution économique primordiale, source de compétitivité et d’innovation, dont l’enjeu majeur est d’éviter l’épuisement des ressources de notre planète. Face à un modèle économique « à bout de souffle », il s’agirait de « réconcilier l’économie
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The results of the "Inventons la Métropole" competition, launched in spring 2016, revealed 51 winners (out of 420 entries) on Wednesday 18 October at the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent-sur-Marne. Greater Paris is thus seeking to develop new centres of attraction, based on in-depth consideration of new uses, the circular economy, the
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Every month, MINES ParisTech offers you the opportunity to discover a PhD student and his/her career path in connection with the Engineering School or its research centres. Today, meet Lucile Druel, a doctoral student in the Cemef (Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux) team in Sophia Antipolis (Nice). Young researcher from
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Bruno Martinaud vient de sortir la nouvelle édition de son manuel à l’usage du parfait startuper : « start-up, précis à l’usage de ceux qui veulent changer le monde … et parfois réussissent ! ». Un guide très pratique et complet sur tout ce qui attend l’entrepreneur de startup dans sa route escarpée vers
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The company is putting pressure on the energy suppliers! In addition to a growing and increasingly connected population and manufacturers demanding a seamless network, suppliers are facing an environmental challenge pushed by governments since COP21. How to produce constant energy for all, without
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Novethic (1) publishes a note analysing the social and environmental impact approaches emerging in the field of responsible investment. Often articulated around the contribution to Sustainable Development Objectives, their positioning brings together the traditional categories of responsible investment and impact investing (investment with social impact).
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What if what the media is telling us about the decline of public services is wrong? This is what a report by the Observatoire des multinationales, the association that monitors the CAC 40, reveals, not to play the stock market, but to measure its ecological and social impact. The desire to put an end to
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Cotraitance de l’innovation : de quoi s’agit-il ? La cotraitance de l’innovation consiste, pour un donneur d’ordre (constructeur automobile ou avionneur par exemple), à faire participer ses fournisseurs à la conduite des projets d’innovation en les considérant comme de véritables partenaires à la fois dans les étapes aval (réalisation du projet)
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The relationship between major groups and startups has always been tinged with suspicion. Large companies see start-ups as a way of tapping into an inexhaustible reservoir of innovation, while startups, attracted by the immediate facilities, sometimes lose their soul. Corporate venture capital is
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Bertrand Piccard was invited last June to Montreal for Movin'On, an event that brings together actors from around the world on the theme of sustainable mobility. Bertrand was one of the speakers, and had to speak on one of his favourite subjects: "How to succeed in the impossible, how to invent, how to innovate, how to create,
PlusBertrand Piccard was invited to speak at Movin'On, a global event on sustainable mobility produced by Michelin in partnership with C2 Montreal. The topic of his talk was: "How to achieve the impossible, how to invent, how to innovate, how to create, how to get out of one's comfort zone, how to
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En France, chaque jour, des millions d’automobilistes roulent seuls dans leur voiture. En parallèle, il y a des millions d’utilisateurs de transports en commun qui pourraient optimiser leurs parcours et gagner du temps. Mais jusqu’à présent, il n’existait aucune solution simple de covoiturage pour les courtes distances. Maintenant c’est fait :
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By 2050, more than two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities. Connected transport and mobility, responsible urbanization, innovative housing... Are the foundations of an intelligent city being laid in Jakarta in the same way as in Genoa or Eindhoven? Clearly not, replied the speakers at the last meeting of the Smart Cycle.
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Is the dynamic facade on its way to becoming the major architectural trend of the end of the decade? In this small revolution, copper stands out. In the form of sails or copper strips, dynamic facades are able to better manage the contribution of light or heat.
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Professional recommendation platforms are in vogue. Here is one dedicated to artisans. Both a search and recommendation tool for building and landscape professionals for the general public, and a new business development model for artisans. A subscription-based solution, without
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Sciences Po's School of Public Affairs is launching a public policy incubator to train students to find innovative and concrete solutions to public policies. This program combines engineering, design and digital technology with social sciences to transform public policy by focusing on the citizen experience, and to develop
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Urban agriculture, bio-inspired habitat, eco-neighbourhoods ... how biomimicry can be used in current architectural projects; the bioluminescence of marine animals as a new source of light; how to reconcile industry with ecology and society, can our economic models repair what they have destroyed; what is the "blob"?
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"The French economic fabric suffers, again and again, from the preference for large companies, whose organizational model is clearly a failure. This is the analysis of the prospectivist André-Yves Portnoff, who proposes in this article five urgent ideas for reform. Illustration: Painting " Voluntary blindness " by Antony Squizzato - Canvas
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IDEAS DAYS will be back on 4 and 5 July 2017 in Grenoble for the second edition: two days of conferences, workshops and debates on the changes in society: the way we work, move, eat and meet. At the heart of the event this year: artificial intelligence. What
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En cette période de canicule, la pollution à l’ozone atteint de nouveaux pics record, notamment en ville où 80 % des français vivent. Chaque année en Europe, la pollution de l’air occasionne près de 500 000 décès, selon l’Agence européenne pour l’environnement (AEE). Alors que la pollution atmosphérique est devenue
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