Publications related to Government procurement

Circularity by stock in Sri Lanka: Economic necessity meets urban fabric renovation

Persistent fiscal and political mismanagement, together with the financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, have driven Sri Lanka into a social and economic crisis triggering a decrease in national foreign exchange reserves, an inability to purchase vit ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Buyers' role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

This study provides the first quantification of buyers' role in the outcome of R&D procurement contracts. We combine together four data sources on US federal R&D contracts, follow-on patented inventions, federal public workforce characteristics, and percep ...

WILEY2021

Decision Framework to Balance Environmental, Technical, Logistical, and Economic Criteria When Designing Structures With Reused Components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Numa Joy Bertola, Célia Marine Küpfer, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

The reuse of structural components in new buildings has great potential to reduce the environmental impacts of the construction sector but remains uncommon practice. An obstacle to its wider implementation is the lack of robust assessment methods and decis ...

2021

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents arising from government funding since the year 2000. About 1.5 percent of all R&D procu ...

2019

Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Matthias Gurtner, Gajanan Bhanudas Panchal

In a supply chain, the importance of information elicitation from the supply chain players is vital to design supply chain network. The rationality and self-centredness of these players causes the information asymmetry in the supply chain and thus situatio ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2017

Valuing quantity flexibility under supply chain disintermediation risk

Isik Bicer

We consider a supply chain with one supplier and one retailer in which the parties develop a quantity flexibility contract to specify the conditions of procurement activities. The contract allows the retailer to adjust the initial order quantity after the ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Hydraulic design of the diaphragm’s orifice at the entrance of the surge shaft of FMHL pumped-storage power plant

Giovanni De Cesare, Christophe Nicolet, Fadi Hachem, Rafael Xavier Meriade Duarte

The surge tank located at the upstream head of penstocks and shafts of hydropower plants is an effective measure to protect the headrace tunnels against high pressure fluctuations. It reflects the transient pressure waves that are generated by the variatio ...

TPU2013

Stockage d’énergie et petite hydraulique

Matthias Finger, Hans Björn Püttgen, Nicolas Crettenand

Les petites centrales hydrauliques d’accumulation et à pompage-turbinage pourraient contribuer à la production d’électricité décentralisée de pointe et de réglage, ainsi qu’au stockage d’énergie décentralisé. Le potentiel technique en Suisse est suffisamme ...

2012

Elicitation and Modeling of Operational Human Decision Making in a Supply Chain Context : a Study Based on Participatory Simulation

Souleïman Naciri

Supply chains (SC) are complex systems in which human beings play a key role. Whereas human impact is often taken into account in simulation models in terms of physical flows (material handling, fabrication), it is far less the case in terms of information ...

EPFL2010

Energy Transition and Security of Supply: OECD Countries

Edgard Gnansounou

For many decades, the production of industrial goods was concentrated in the Northern hemisphere, while energy resources were abundantly available in a limited number of developing countries and those with centrally planned economies. In this context, the ...

2009