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Dominique Foray
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Chair in Economics and Management of Innovation
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Professor
nationality: French
web site: http://cemi.epfl.ch
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office(s):
ODY101B
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 30035,30139,30036
fax: [+41 21 69] 30020
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BIOGRAPHY
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Prof. Dominique Foray is the Director of the "Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation". He is currently vice-chairman of the expert group "Knowledge for Growth", a group of prominent economists created to advise Commisioner J. Potocnik (European Commission, DG research). He is also a member of the National Research Council (Switzerland), the Advisory Board of the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council. He serves as the 2009-President of the EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property - www.epip.eu) association.
Between 2004 and 2008 Prof. Foray was the Dean of the "Collège du Management de la Technologie". Before joining EPFL, he was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a Professor at the Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (IMRI) of the University of Paris-Dauphine (from 1993 to 2000); he was then a Principal Analyst at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2000 to 2004.
Prof. Foray received his PhD in 1984 and his "habilitation" in 1992 from the University Lumière of Lyon. He received the distinction of outstanding research in 1995 (médaille du CNRS).
Prof. Foray research interests include all topics and issues related to the economics and management of technology, knowledge and innovation at both the micro and macro levels. This broad field covers the economics of science and technology with a particular focus on high tech sectors, the management of large-scale technological projects, international comparisons of institutions, and systems of innovation within the context of the new economy. Intellectual property and competition policies, information technology and the new economy, capital market and entrepreneurship, national systems of innovation are fields of high relevance for his research.
Prof. Foray is recognized as one of the leading academic experts in the economics of innovation and knowledge and economic policy implications of the new knowledge-based economy.
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PUBLICATIONS
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=> Dominique Foray's publications
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2004/...
- DIRECTOR and PROFESSOR
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation (CEMI)
2004/2008
- DEAN
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Collège du Management de la Technologie (CDM)
2000/2004
- PRINCIPAL ANALYST
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
1993/2000
- PROFESSOR
University of Paris-Dauphine
Institut pour le Management de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (IMRI)
- RESEARCH DIRECTOR
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Full Professor