Publications – Dominique Foray

2023

Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations

Z. Tian / C. Koch (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Economic Effect of Patents and the Patent System: Insights from Linked Patent-Product Data

G. Abi Younes / G. J. A. de Rassenfosse (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

2022

Bias Cancellation of MixColumns

S. Banik; A. Caforio; K. Papagiannopoulos; F. Regazzoni 

2022-01-01. 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering 2022 (SPACE), Jaipur, INDIA, Dec 09-12, 2022. p. 70-80. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-22829-2_4.

The Economics of Incomplete Plan – on Conditions, Procedures and Design of Future Mission – Oriented Innovation Policies

D. Foray 

Hacienda Publica Espanola-Review Of Public Economics. 2022-01-01. Vol. 243, p. 123-146. DOI : 10.7866/HPE-RPE.22.4.6.

Detecting Latent Training Needs Using Large Datasets

R. Yazdanian / P. Dillenbourg; R. West (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

2021

Immigration, Innovation, and Knowledge Diffusion

G. Cristelli / D. Foray; F. Lissoni (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity

L. Zhou / G. J. A. de Rassenfosse (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector

F. Eslamishoar / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

R. A. L. R. M. Lacroix / R. Seifert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Smart specialization strategies – insights gained from a unique European policy experiment on innovation and industrial policy design

D. Foray; M. Eichler; M. Keller 

Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. 2021. Vol. 2, p. 83–103. DOI : 10.1007/s43253-020-00026-z.

The formation of Coasean institutions to provide university knowledge for innovation: a case study and econometric evidence for Switzerland

D. Foray; M. Woerter 

Journal Of Technology Transfer. 2021. Vol. 46, p. 1584–1610. DOI : 10.1007/s10961-020-09828-z.

2020

A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice

G. Lazzari; G. Colavizza; F. Bortoluzzi; D. Drago; A. Erboso et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2020-10-20. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 17849. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-74775-6.

Six additional replies – one more chorus of the S3 ballad

D. Foray 

European Planning Studies. 2020-08-02. Vol. 28, num. 8, p. 1685-1690. DOI : 10.1080/09654313.2020.1797307.

On the economics of social innovation – a conceptual framework and its policy implications

A. Cuntz; D. Foray; E. Mostovova 

Innovation – Organization & Management. 2020-03-23. Vol. 22, num. 4, p. 469-487. DOI : 10.1080/14479338.2020.1735394.

COVID-19 : Insights from innovation economists

G. Abi Younes; C. C. Ayoubi; O. Ballester Gonzalez; G. Cristelli; G. de Rassenfosse et al. 

Science and Public Policy. 2020.  p. 1-13. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scaa028.

Entrepreneurship and Identity

E. Fauchart Foray; M. Gruber 

The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations; Oxford University Press, 2020.

Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

S. E. Foy / M. Gruber (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

C. C. Ayoubi / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Scalable Stochastic Optimization: Scenario Reduction with Guarantees

K. Schindler / D. Kuhn (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding.

O. Ballester Gonzalez / G. J. A. de Rassenfosse (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

2019

In response to ‘Six critical questions about smart spezialisation’

D. Foray 

European Planning Studies. 2019-09-09. Vol. 27, num. 10, p. 2066-2078. DOI : 10.1080/09654313.2019.1664037.

The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

B. Thurm / P. Thalmann (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

On sector-non-neutral innovation policy: towards new design principles

D. Foray 

Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 2019. Vol. 29, p. 1379–1397. DOI : 10.1007/s00191-018-0599-8.

Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms

C. M. Aouinait / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

2018

IT Investment and its impacts

S. Hasan / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

Economie de la Connaissance

D. Foray 

Paris: La Découverte Repères, 2018.

Smart specialization strategies and industrial modernization in European regions – theory and practice

D. Foray 

Cambridge Journal of Economics. 2018. Vol. 42, num. 6, p. 1505–1520. DOI : 10.1093/cje/bey022.

Smart specialization strategies as a case of mission-oriented policy – a case study on the emergence of new policy practices

D. Foray 

Industrial and Corporate Change. 2018. Vol. 27, num. 5, p. 817-832. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dty030.

The Intellectual Organisation of History

G. Colavizza / F. Kaplan; M. Franceschet (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

Routines and Practices in Cross-boundary Creative Projects

G. Baldessarelli / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

2017

Environmental innovation, policy and economic performance

C. Pellegrin / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Three Essays on Collective Forms of Organizing for Production and Innovation

J. Rodrigues Pereira / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Impedance Spectroscopy for Single Cell Analysis and Dispensing

D. V. Bonzon / P. Renaud; D. Bertrand (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector

M. Coffano; D. Foray; M. Pezzoni 

Regional Studies. 2017. Vol. 51, num. 8, p. 1206-1218. DOI : 10.1080/00343404.2017.1329585.

Narrative Recomposition in the Context of Digital Reading

C. A. M. Bornet / F. Kaplan (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Diving into the dynamics of product evolution

O. Waeber / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Digital transformation, business models and the postal industry

N. H. Kollara / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

2016

Innovation dynamics in the medical device sector

M. Coffano / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

Signaling and Self-regulation in Venture Capital

G. Liotta / C. Tucci; A. Wadhwa (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. 

On the policy space of smart specialization strategies

D. Foray 

European Planning Studies. 2016. Vol. 24, num. 8, p. 1428-1437. DOI : 10.1080/09654313.2016.1176126.

2015

From transfer of technology to innovation : the centrality of the discovery process and economic knowledge

D. Foray 

2015

Should we let the Genie out of the bottle? On the new industrial policy agenda and the example of smart specialisation

D. Foray 

Scienze Regionali. 2015. Vol. 52.

Can medical products be developed on a non-profit basis? Exploring product development partnerships for neglected diseases

V. Munoz; F. Visentin; D. Foray; P. Gaule 

Science And Public Policy. 2015. Vol. 42, num. 3, p. 315-338. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scu049.

An assessment of the Innovation Union Scoreboard as a tool to analyse national innovation capacities: The case of Switzerland

D. Foray; H. Hollanders 

Research Evaluation. 2015. Vol. 24, num. 2, p. 213-228. DOI : 10.1093/reseval/rvu036.

Transition economics meets new structural economics

E. Berglof; D. Foray; M. Landesmann; J. Y. Lin; M. N. Campos et al. 

Journal Of Economic Policy Reform. 2015. Vol. 18, num. 3, p. 191-220. DOI : 10.1080/17487870.2015.1018691.

Common Innovation (how we create the wealth of nations) in the light of reflections on Mass Flourishing (how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change)

D. Foray 

Research Policy. 2015. Vol. 44, num. 7, p. 1403-1405. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2015.04.006.

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

V. C. Muñoz Tellez de Kieffer / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

Mitigating Crime Risks in the International Logistics Network

T. A. Männistö / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

Three essays on the role of proximity in science and innovation

S. H. Baruffaldi / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. 

Smart Specialisation – Opportunities and Challenges for Regional Innovation Policy

D. Foray 

Routledge, 2015.

2014

From smart specialisation to smart specialisation policy

D. Foray 

European Journal of Innovation Management. 2014. Vol. 17, num. 4, p. 492-507. DOI : 10.1108/EJIM-09-2014-0096.

The emergence of an educational tool industry: Opportunities and challenges for innovation in education

D. Foray; J. Raffo 

Research Policy. 2014. Vol. 43, num. 10, p. 1707-1715. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.010.

Product Development Partnerships for Neglected Diseases: Exploring a New Model of Pharmaceutical R&D

V. Muñoz; F. Visentin; D. Foray; P. Gaulé 

Science and Public Policy. 2014. Vol. August 24, p. 1-24.

Art of the possible

T. Peters / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Diversity, knowledge transfers and economic outcomes

M. Marino / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

2013

Corporate Science and Voluntary Disclosure

M. Simeth / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

Patent-free Innovation: a review of economic works including the analysis of a recent work in the field of experimental economics

D. Foray 

Revue Economique. 2013. Vol. 64, num. 1, p. 9-27.

2012

The fragility of experiential knowledge

D. Foray 

Handbook Of Knowledge And Economics; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.

Why is it so difficult to translate innovation economics into useful and applicable policy prescriptions?

D. Foray 

The rate and direction of inventive activity revisited; University of Chicago: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012. p. 673-678.

Public R&D and social challenges: What lessons from mission R&D programs?

D. Foray; D. C. Mowery; R. R. Nelson 

Research Policy. 2012. Vol. 41, num. 10, p. 1697-1702. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2012.07.011.

Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation

J. Thiel / M. Gruber (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. 

2011

A la recherche d’une spécialisation intelligente des Régions Européennes

D. Foray 

Futuris 2011 – La Recherche et l’Innovation en France; Paris: Odile Jacob, 2011.

The knowledge and the rabbit: can we measure what is on the other side of the scales?

D. Foray 

Güterabwägung bei der Bewilligung von Tierversuchen – Die Güterabwägung interdisziplinär kritisch beleuchtet; Zürich: Collegium Helveticum, 2011.

Le levier de l’innovation en manque d’incitations

D. Foray 

L’Economie, une science qui nous gouverne ?; Paris: Actes Sud / Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie, 2011.

Knowledge economy and services’industries – a case study of the educational sector

D. Foray 

Brain drain or brain gain?; Berlin: Sigma, 2011.

Educational innovation: an Economist’s perspective

D. Foray 

Rigour and relevance in educational research; Oslo: The Research Council of Norway, 2011. p. 35-44.

Social Software and Strategy

S. Haefliger; E. Monteiro; D. Foray; G. von Krogh 

Long Range Planning. 2011. Vol. 44, p. 297-316. DOI : 10.1016/j.lrp.2011.08.001.

An ontology-based comparative anatomy information system

R. S. Travillian; K. Diatchka; T. K. Judge; K. Wilamowska; L. G. Shapiro 

Artificial Intelligence In Medicine. 2011. Vol. 51, p. 1-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.artmed.2010.10.001.

The challenge of innovation in turbulent times

D. Foray; S. E. Phelps 

2011

Smart specialisation From academic idea to political instrument, the surprising career of a concept and the difficulties involved in its implementation

D. Foray; P. A. DAVID; B. H. HALL 

2011

2010

Avec les armes de la sociologie de l’innovation: critique d’un travail récent d’économie expérimentale sur l’innovation et la propriété intellectuelle

D. Foray 

Débordements: Mélanges offerts à Michel Callon; Paris: Presses des Mines, 2010.

Le positionnement et les perspectives stratégiques des nanotechnologies en France

D. Foray; S. Lhuillery; J. D. S. Raffo 

2010

Knowledge policy for development

D. Foray 

Innovation and development agenda; Paris: OECD Innovation Strategy, 2010.

University research and public-private interaction

D. Foray; F. Lissoni 

Handbook of the Economics of Innovation; Elsevier, 2010. p. 275-314.

Structural Changes in Industrial R&D in Europe and the US

D. Foray; S. Lhuillery 

Science and Public Policy. 2010. Vol. 37, num. 6, p. 401-412. DOI : 10.3152/030234210X508606.

A primer on patent and innovation

D. Foray 

International Management. 2010. Vol. 14, num. 3, p. 19–28. DOI : 10.7202/044290ar.

La Révolution Numérique et ses conséquences

D. Foray 

Cahiers Français. 2010. num. 357.

The challenge of innovation in turbulent times

D. Foray; E. S. Phelps 

2010

Socio-Economic Assessment of Fusion Energy Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment Programme

D. Bednyagin / D. Foray; E. Gnansounou (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. 

2009

Science, technology and innovation for economic growth: Linking policy research and practice in ‘STIG Systems’

P. Aghion; P. A. David; D. Foray 

2009. 40th Conference on the Future of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Brighton, ENGLAND, Sep 11-13, 2006. p. 681-693. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2009.01.016.

Three essays on university-industry technology transfer and the economics of science

A. Conti / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Examining how TRIPS implementation affects access to foreign technologies for developing countries

I. M. Hamdan-Livramento / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

The sources of process innovation in user firms

M. Bogers / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

Three essays on access to knowledge

P. Gaulé / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2009. 

ERA: Entrepreneurial Regional Action

D. Foray 

public service review: Science & Technology. 2009. num. 2, p. 44-47.

L’économie de la connaissance

D. Foray 

Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2009.

The New Economics of Technology Policy

 

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009.

2008

Overview on Knowledge for Growth: European issues and policy challenges

D. Foray; B. Van Ark 

Knowledge for Growth. European Issues and Policy Challenges; Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008. p. 6-15.

Economie de la connaissance

D. Foray 

Dictionnaire de l’éducation; Paris: Presses Universitaires France, 2008. p. 187-191.

Combining the production and the valorization of academic research: a qualitative investigation of enacted mechanisms

J. Callaert; B. Van Looy; D. Foray; K. Debackere 

European universities in transition. Issues, models and cases; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008. p. 133-153.

2007

Tacit and codified knowledge

D. Foray 

Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics; Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007. p. 235-247.

Enriching the indicator base for the economics of knowledge

D. Foray 

Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in a Changing World. Responding to Policy Needs; OECDpublishing, 2007. p. 87-100.

Pitfalls in Estimating the Returns to Corporate R&D Using Accounting Data

D. Foray; B. H. Hall; J. Mairesse 

2007

Linking Policy Research and Practice in ‘STIG Systems’: Many Obstacles, but Some Ways Forward

P. Aghion; P. A. David; D. Foray 

2007

Patents and development in the knowledge economy

D. Foray 

ICTSD Selected Issue Briefs. 2007. num. 1, p. 3-6.

Academic Licensing: a European Study

A. Conti; P. Gaulé; D. Foray 

2007

Open software: knowledge openness and cooperation in cyberspace

D. Foray; S. Thoron; J-B. Zimmerman 

Internet and digital economics: Principles, methods and applications; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. p. 368-390.

Randomized trials of education and medical practices: strengths and limitations

D. Foray; R. Murnane; R. R. Nelson 

Economics of Innovation and New Technology. 2007. Vol. 16, num. 5, p. 303-306. DOI : 10.1080/10438590600982194.

Building the capacity to experiment in schools: a case study of the Institute of Educational Sciences in the U.S. department of Education

D. Foray; T. Cook 

Economics of Innovation and New Technology. 2007. Vol. 16, num. 5, p. 385-402. DOI : 10.1080/10438590600982475.

University-industry knowledge transfer in Switzerland

D. Foray 

How universities promote economic growth; Washington: The World Bank, 2007. p. 47-70.