Marc Laperrouza
Fields of expertise
China - emerging markets - economy - business models - value propositions - regulation - network industries - interdisciplinarity - project-based learning - pedagogy
Biography
Marc is a scientist and lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).Marc obtained his PhD on China's telecommunication reforms from the London School of Economics. He holds a Master Degree in International Management (HEC, 1997) and an undergraduate degree in Business Management from the University of Lausanne (1993). He studied Chinese Language and Economics for two years at Fudan University, Shanghai (1993-1995) and one semester at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada (1996).
Marc was previously senior research associate at EPFL working on the coherence between institutional and technological governance in infrastructures (2007-2011). In a former life, he worked as a research analyst at Swiss Re and at McKinseys Business Technology Office. He served as deputy director and senior advisor to the Evian Group, a think tank based at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) and lectures regularly on China and emerging markets at undergraduate, graduate and executive levels.
Marc contributes frequently to Swiss media. He is the Founder and President of the bonopro association and recipient of the Swiss Re Civilian Service Prize (2011).
Current work
Marc's research looks at innovation in emerging markets both from a macro perspective (e.g., implications on the global innovation landscape) and a micro perspective (business model innovation in emerging markets). In addition his research looks at specific aspects of China's innovation landscape (e.g., techno-nationalism, shanzhai, makerspaces, etc.)Marc is also passionate about pedagogy and, in particular, interdisciplinarity and experiential learning. He has co-authored "Design pédagogique" with Jacques Lanarès and Emmanuel Sylvestre (UNIL).
Over the years he has explored different scenarios to raise students' awareness to the importance of emerging markets. In this framework he launched the China Hardware Innovation Camp (CHIC) in 2015, the India Switzerland Social Innovation Camp (INSSINC) in 2019 and aging-friendly societies in Switzerland and Korea (KimCheese). He currently develops a set of learning activities in the framework of the FIELD initiative.
He was in charge of the "China" stream for the Minor in "Science, Technology and Area Studies" (STAS) until 2020.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Main publications
Analyse de l'utilisation d'un outil de visualisation dans une situation d'entretien-conseil pédagogique dans l'enseignement supérieur
2024-05-28. AIPU 2024, Sherbrooke, Canada, May 28-31, 2024.Course Design - A Visual and Modular Approach
Lausanne: EPFL Press.The development, validation and use of an interprofessional project management questionnaire in engineering education
European Journal Of Engineering Education. 2023-02-01. DOI : 10.1080/03043797.2023.2171854.Design pédagogique
Lausanne: EPFL Press.Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences
Informacios Tarsadalom. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.22503/inftars.XX.2020.2.1.Planning: from model to modules
Realtime: making digital China; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2020.Realtime: making digital China
Lausanne: EPFL Press.Visualizing constructive alignment in the process of course design
2019-01-01. 5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd), Valencia, SPAIN, Jun 25-28, 2019. p. 869-874. DOI : 10.4995/HEAd19.2019.9330.Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education
2019. SEFI 47th Annual Conference. European Society of Engineering Education. "Varietas delectat...Complexity is the new normality"", Budapest, Hungary, September 16-19, 2019.Building a Question-Answering Chatbot using Forum Data in the Semantic Space
2018-06-13Active Interdisciplinary Learning in a Design Thinking Course: Going to Class for a Reason
2018-01-01. IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (IEEE TALE) - Engineering Next-Generation Learning, Wollongong, AUSTRALIA, Dec 04-07, 2018. p. 906-911. DOI : 10.1109/TALE.2018.8615292.Assessing transversal skills in an interdisciplinary programme
2018. 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018, assessment, interdisciplinary, transversal skills, reflexivity, September 17-21, 2018. p. 968-975.Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences
2018. 46th SEFI Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.Making the city: re-assembling spaces of manufacturing
2017. CHI2017.China and global value chains
New Realities : Business Dynamics at the Frontiers of Globalization; Lausanne: IMD International, 2016. p. 40-60.Chinese overseas acquisitions: The Nokia Siemens/Motorola Case
The EU-China relationship – European perspectives: a manual for policy makers; Imperial College Press, 2015. p. 390-396.Multi-dimensional performance approach to reforming network industries: An application to the Chinese railway sector
The Politics of Marketising Asia; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 185-205.Shanghai 2012: Réflexions sur le processus de sélection des participants à un projet d'apprentissage expérientiel dans un marché émergent
2013. IIième colloque Questions de pédagogies dans l'enseignement supérieur, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, June 3-5, 2013.Liberalization of the network industries in the European Union: evolving policy issues
International Handbook Of Network Industries; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. p. 345-365.Competition effects in a liberalzed railway market
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. 2011. DOI : 10.1007/s10842-011-0117-2.Governing the dynamics of the network industries
2010Performance and Coherence in Network Industries
2010. 3rd annual conference on competition and regulation in network industries, Brussels, Belgium, November 19, 2010.Trade, technology transfer and institutional catch-up
Peace and Prosperity Through World Trade; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.The effect of access charges on social welfare in the railway industry
2010. European Transport Conference 2010, Dublin, Ireland, October 11-13, 2010.Governance of innovation in the European railway sector
2010. XII World Conference on Transport Research, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-15, 2010.Reforming railways
Handbook on Infrastructure Reform; Edward Elgar, 2010.Coherence between technology, policy and institutions: Managing innovation in the new European rail market
2009. European Transport Conference, Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, The Netherlands., October 5-7, 2009.Does the liberalization of the European railway sector increase systemic risk?
2009. Third Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, March 23-25, 2009. p. 19-33. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-04798-5_2.Developing and deploying innovative technologies in a liberalized European railway system
2009. 9th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Monte Verità, September 9–11, 2009.Systemic risk in the network industries: is there a governance gap?
2009. 5th ECPR Conference, University of Potsdam, Germany, 10-12 September 2009.Regulating Europe's single railway market: Integrating performance and governance
2009. Second Annual Conference on Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Brussels, November 20, 2009.Deploying a pan-European railway standard in the era of liberalization: Lessons from the introduction of ERTMS in Switzerland
2008. Building Networks for a Brighter Future. EURNEX - ZEL 2008, Zilina, Slovak Republic, June 4-5, 2008.Dealing with standardization in liberalized network industries: Some lessons from the European railway sector
2008. Second Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance (ECPR), Pis, June 5-7, 2008.Transferring standards: lessons from GSM-R in the railway sector
2008. 19th European Regional ITS Conference, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, September 18-20, 2008.Book review: Chinese railways : reform and efficiency improvement opportunities
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries. 2008. DOI : 10.1177/178359170800900305.The future is in Asia: let's start with mobile telecommunication in China
LIFT 2008, Geneva, February 7-9, 2008.Can China Really Control the Internet?
LIFT06, Geneva, February 2-3, 2006.China's telecommunication policy-making in the context of trade and economic reforms
London School of Economics, 2006.Selected publications
| Lanères, J., Laperrouza, M., Sylvestre, M. EPFL Press |
Design pédagogique |
Research
Technology and pedagogy
China Hardware Innovation Platform (CHIP)Funded by the Gebert Rüf Stiftung (2016-2017) and swissnex China, the CHIP project aims to scale the China Hardware Innovation Camp (CHIC) by making such a learning experience available to teams of students across academic institutions in Switzerland. Teams from Geneva, Fribourg and Ticino participate in the pilot (October 2016-September 2017).
Technology and society
Makerspaces: politics and communities of innovation in contemporary China (2016-2019)Funded by the SNSF, this project is lead with Dr. Florence Graezer Bideau (PI) in collaboration with Dr. Clément Renaud and Monique Bolli (IAGS, EPFL). It investigates the social, technical and commercial attributes of key Chinese makerspaces and their communities in several Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and Shenzhen). While limited in size and scope, makerspaces and the maker movement in general offer a very rich environment to study much broader social, political and economic transformations taking place in contemporary China.
The project aims to shed light on how a bottom-up and autonomous movement responds to the co-opting of the State and to discuss the Chinese government’s plasticity and capacity to engage with emerging classes.
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Courses
Competing with China
The course raises awareness on the implications of China's emergence as an economic and technological power by developing a critical approach on the domestic and international challenges created by such a transition.
Technologies, innovation and emerging markets
The course raises students' awareness of the importance of emerging markets in the global innovation landscape. It provides modeling tools to analyze product/service innovations in the context of emerging markets.
Design for sustainability I
This course explores and practices some of the fundamental tools of designing for sustainability with a focus on the sustainability, desirability, and economic viability of solutions.
Design for sustainability II
This course explores and practices some of the fundamental tools of designing for sustainability with a focus on the sustainability, desirability, and economic viability of solutions.
Design in innovation: creation for adoption
Challenges in health, environment or media show how adoption is critical for innovation. The course delves into design methodologies to rethink innovation from a human point of view. Creativity, transdisciplinary approaches will allow to build solutions bringing benefits to citizens and the economy.