Last week I had a call. They informed me that the proposal I had submitted for funding by the European Innovation Ecosystems part of the…
parisFebruary 8, 2023
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The film “Third Kind” by Yorgos Zois is available online for the next few days and you shouldn’t miss it. As it happened when I…
parisJune 22, 2020
The current pandemic has already challenged the boundaries of Science and academic community, states and international organizations, work and personal life and not only. The…
parisJune 14, 2020
“Poems have no value,” told me a French friend, high ranked executive in a public enterprise. I disagreed. Thus came the idea to introduce poetry…
parisNovember 11, 2019
The 17th International Open and User Innovation (OUI) Conference took place last month at the beautiful city of Utrecht (the Netherlands). It was the fourth…
parisAugust 7, 2019
I just got back from Shanghai, where I taught innovation methods to a group of executives from various industries (Materials, Logistics, Entertainment, Automobile, Electric Power,…
parisMay 28, 2019
A year ago, the Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) launched an open call for studies exploring the following theme: “Value Capture in Open Innovation…
parisApril 21, 2019
It’s been 12 years I live in Paris and I’ve never entered Notre-Dame. For many years, I even stayed two blocks away, I walked in…
parisApril 16, 2019
Five years ago, Annie Gentes and myself had an idea for an original gift. Anne-Françoise Schmid was retiring and we thought about organizing a conference…
parisMarch 8, 2019
On March 12 I present at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales my work on the cognitive and relational empathy, in the framework…
parisMarch 2, 2019
If you’re in Athens next Tuesday, January 15, come to the meeting organized at the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), 4 Nikis Str., at 7.30…
parisJanuary 12, 2019
A few months ago, I visited the NASA Safety Center at Cleveland, Ohio, to present my work about the miniaturization of satellites. When I got…
parisDecember 23, 2018
Next March, I will be presenting my work at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the seminar "The Californian Model", organized by…
parisNovember 12, 2018
Two weeks ago, I gave a course at the Business School of the University of Patras. I've never given a course at a Greek Business…
parisOctober 22, 2018
The workshop Last month, Sep. 7, I was at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland (Ohio), a place where aerospace technologies are developed. I…
parisOctober 7, 2018
Next Tuesday, Oct. 2, I'll have the honour to present my work on the class of developers are the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering…
parisSeptember 29, 2018
Last May I attended the 15th CubeSat Developers Workshop at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo in California. Meeting the CubeSat community was a great experience. The…
parisJune 30, 2018
Just arrived in San Francisco 🙂 Sunday I’m going to San Luis Obispo, home of CalPoly, where the 15th Cubesat Developers Workshop will take place.…
parisApril 28, 2018
Today there's much discussion about work in France. Even though work is not my preferred subject, I participate at a debate that is announced to…
parisApril 7, 2018
How to educate tomorrow’s innovation leaders? Global economy is more and more ruled by innovation. Learning to innovate is about learning to discover, to imagine,…
parisJanuary 30, 2018
Next Tuesday, December 19, I will be presenting my current research work at the EHESS, in the seminar on the Californian model, organized by Olivier…
parisDecember 12, 2017
Just recovered from the jet lag and started my courses at ISC Paris. My visit at the ASU at Phoenix was a great experience! Many…
parisDecember 6, 2017
Time has come to leave the eternal summer of Arizona to get back to Paris (after a short stay in NY) and meet my new…
parisNovember 18, 2017
I just arrived in Phoenix, this sunny city of Arizona. It’s the home of the Arizona State University (ASU), the most innovative school in the…
parisOctober 26, 2017
In Greece, there is currently a debate on the system of admission to public Universities. The Greek system being amongst the most transparent and open…
parisJuly 5, 2017
A small video I made about my book on Developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhXbRXPrZQ Developed with Kdenlive and Gimp. (more…)
parisMay 18, 2017
This summer, if you look at the starry sky and see a star that blinks at you, know that it might be it ! In…
parisMay 7, 2017
Discussion (in French) with Nathalie Langlais, librarian at ISC Paris Business School on the book "Developers" (Les développeurs, FYP Éditions, 2015). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTW6kZyuBH0 (more…)
parisMay 7, 2017
Friday, February 24, I was invited at the seminar "Work and creativity: an international approach", animated by Emmanuellle Savignac and Yanita Andova at the Fondation…
parisMarch 4, 2017