From 7 to 20 February 2016, the twelve students minoring in Public Affairs and Innovation (PAI) went to San Francisco as part of a study trip to participate in a collective investigation. In the frame of the CitEx project (City Experiment with urban mobility practices), involving a partnership with the Institute for Sustainable mobility (Renault-Nissan Alliance), the investigation explored the linkages between infrastructures, urban innovation…
Health that counts? Costs and hospital rates in the French hospital policy What is a profitable patient? What is an excessively costly patient? How do we judge that a hospital is not productive enough? How do some hospitals end up…
Jérôme Denis arrived at the CSI in May. Part of his investigations concerns the – often-invisible – work that is being done at an earlier stage of the circulation and dissemination of data, in various areas (administrations, banks, city services…). Over the last few years, along with David Pontille, he has also developed a research interest around maintenance and repair activities.
He co-runs, with David Pontille and Didier Torny, Scriptopolis, a blog dedicated to the ordinary writing practices
Signing Together. Contribution and Evaluation in Science Scientific activity is crossed with a fundamental tension between organizational forms of collaborative work and evaluation policies that consecrate individual geniuses. This tension regularly restarts the debates about the authorship of scientific articles…
Interview with Vincent-Arnaud Chappe. The CSI research team welcomes Vincent-Arnaud Chappe, recruited as a researcher to the CNRS. His current research concerns the statistical equipment of the nondiscrimination and equality policies within firms. Vincent-Arnaud Chappe is the co-chairman of the…
A Primer on Distributed Architectures What is meant by distributed network architecture? Trivially it is called peer-to-peer. From a technical standpoint, it evokes an organization made of multiple calculation units, resources sharing, the absence of unique point, flexibility… in short,…
At the Prize ceremony organized at the newspaper’s premises on November 18th, 2015, Pierre-André Juven was awarded the 2015 Le Monde Prize for University Research by Edgar Morin, Chairman of the Humanities and Social sciences jury, for his PhD thesis…
Liliana Doganova and Brice Laurent have created a minor in “Public Affairs and Innovation” (API) as part of the engineering training at Mines-ParisTech, which meets both the current challenges of innovation and an increasing demand for engineers with an educational…
The Equilibrists. An Ethnography of Management Consulting Conquering technicians? Quacks of the modern world? Management consultants are often ridiculed by critics but they are little studied for what they do. Consulting can neither be reduced to the mechanical application of…
