Spectrum Trading in the United Kingdom: Considering Market-Based Liberalization from Two Perspectives

This thesis considers the policy of liberalization via spectrum trading in the U.K. through the lenses of two perspectives on markets. The central research question of this thesis is: How is the outcome of the policy of liberalization via spectrum trading in the U.K. considered through the lenses of two perspectives on markets: the MO and MT...

Keeping an eye on reliability: The organizational requirements of future renewable energy systems

The reliable operation of energy infrastructures is more than just a technical matter. It is also dependent upon the organizational structure that enables and constrains entities in their management of operations. Yet this lesson seems forgotten in our planning of future renewable energy systems. There, focus is on technical development, market...

Le régime de recherche utilitaire du professeur-consultant au cours de la Seconde Révolution industrielle

This article examines the advent of the consulting professor in universities during the Second In-dustrial Revolution. Several cases of consulting professor have been investigated; but no clear ex-planation of the global phenomenon has been putted forward. This article claims that some profes-sors adopted a utilitarian research regime to...

The Privatization of Public Enterprises in the United Kingdom, 1979–1987

How do states have privatized public enterprises? In the book The Official History of Privatization, David Parker, a notorious economist of regulation and privatization, shed light on a country at the forefront of economic reforms, the United Kingdom.

Three theses on the internationalization of infrastructures

Infrastructures become more intertwined, with time, on an international level. This has important consequences on infrastructure technologies, corporate organizations and economic institutions.

Barack Obama’s infrastructure policies for the United States

The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, has set his policies on infrastructures. To carry them out, he will resort mostly to economics incentives and, to a lesser extent, regulatory constraints.

Institutional reform and technological practice: The case of electricity

This article proposes a framework for categorizing possible interrelations between technological and institutional change and applies this framework to the case of the restructuring of the electricity sector. It is argued that there is a need for coherence between institutions and technological practice, so as to safeguard the satisfactory...

The Positions of Virtual Knowledge Brokers in the Core Process of Open Innovation

Several companies are implementing the strategy of open innovation in their research and development operations. They become more dependent, therefore, on their capabilities to exchange knowledge and technology with external parties. To facilitate these exchanges, virtual knowledge brokers use web-based information systems. In this paper, we...

La formation des ingénieurs électrotechniciens au Canada avant la Première Guerre mondiale

Résumé : La formation des ingénieurs électrotechniciens débuta au cours de la Seconde Révolution industrielle (1880-1920) en Europe et en Amérique du Nord. Ce chapitre examine l’établissement du génie électrique au Canada avant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il démontre l’influence de la politique provinciale et des caractéristiques de l’économie...

L'université au service de l'industrie: La vente de services de laboratoire en génie au Canada, 1895-1939

Résumé : Ce chapitre traite demande quand et comment les universités ont commencé à répondre aux besoins de recherche des entreprises privées. Il étudie plus particulièrement la commercialisation des services de laboratoire par les universités pour les tests, le contrôle de la qualité et la normalisation. Le résultat saillant est que les...