Dominique Foray

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 Paris as professor of Economics and returned to CNRS in 1994.

• He was invited Professor at the University of Padova (Italy) in 1993, of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and of Turin (Italy).

• 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 (Italy) 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.

External links

• CDM
• CEMI

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