Dominique Foray
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Prof. Dominique Foray holds the "Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation" at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in the Collège du Management de la Technologie.
Biography
- D. Foray received his Ph.D in 1984 and his "habilitation" in 1992 from the Université Lumière of Lyon. In 1985, he joined the CNRS as Research Fellow. In 1990 he joined the Ecole Centrale ParisÉcole Centrale ParisÉcole Centrale Paris is a French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name École centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP. Founded in 1829, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering schools in France and has the special status...
as professor of Economics and returned to CNRS in 1994.
- He was invited Professor at the University of PadovaUniversity of PaduaThe University of Padua is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 as a school of law and was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe. It is among the earliest universities of the world and the second...
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) in 1993, of Santiago de CompostelaSantiago de CompostelaSantiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James...
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), in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and of TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
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).
- He did one to three month research vistits to the WZB (Berlin) in 1986; Stanford University in 1991; and IIASA (Austria) in 1993, 94, and 95.
- From 1993 to 1995, he was a permanent consultant (part time) at the OECD (Division for Science, Technology and Industry) where he contributed to the Programme on "National Systems of Innovation". He received the distinction of outstanding research 1993 from CNRS. He is elected as Research Fellow at the ICER foundation (ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) for the academic year 1999; and at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin for the academic year 2000.
- D. Foray research interests include the economics of science and technology, the economics of production and distribution of knowledge, the exploration of the tension between diversity and standardization in the past and in the present, and the analysis of path-dependent processes of economic change.