professional

When healthcare professionals form communities through digital technology

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Digital technology is shaking up the healthcare world. Among its other uses, it can help break isolation and facilitate online interactions in both the private and professional spheres. Can these virtual interactions help form a collective structure…
microorganisms

When microorganisms attack or repair materials

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Some microorganisms can seriously damage structures made of concrete or stone, leading to billions of euros in damage. Others, on the contrary, have a positive effect as they are able to heal micro-cracks.   They are microscopic, but…
good in tech

Good in Tech: a chair to put responsibility and ethics into innovation

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On September 12, the Good in Tech chair was launched with the aim of making digital innovations more responsible and ethical. The chair is supported by the Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, the School of Management and Innovation at…
competition, access to data

The new competition issues raised by access to data in the digital economy

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Patrick Waelbroeck, Télécom Paris – Institut Mines-Télécom and Antoine Dubus, Télécom Paris – Institut Mines-Télécom [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the digital economy, data is king. While…
plants

When plants help us fight pollution

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To help reduce or stabilize soil and water pollution, plants provide a rather effective yet inexpensive solution. They must be implemented on a case-by-case basis and could be used in a wide variety of sites.   According to the French…
Polybioskin

Polybioskin, natural skin through more ethical products

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Skin contact products, whether for medical, sanitary or cosmetic purposes, have two major drawbacks: they are neither recyclable nor biodegradable. The Polybioskin H2020 project aims to correct these aspects which are out of step with consumers'…

Digital technology has given rise to new informal learning methods

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Article written in partnership with The Conversation France. By Myriam Benabid and Emmanuel Baudoin, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School; and Serge Perrot, University Paris Dauphine – PSL [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]C[/dropcap]onsulting…
SERTIT

SERTIT: satellite imagery for the environment and crisis management

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I’MTech is dedicating a series of stories to success stories from research partnerships supported by the Carnot Télécom & Société Numérique Institute (TSN), to which Télécom Physique Strasbourg and IMT belong. [divider style="normal"…
Romain Quey

Romain Quey, all about polycrystals

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A recent winner of a CNRS Bronze medal, Romain Quey is a materials science researcher at the Georges Friedel[1] laboratory at Mines Saint-Étienne. He focuses especially on the deformation of metallic polycrystalline materials. In the following…
alcohol, tobacco, marketing

Alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceuticals: compromises between marketing and ethics

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In socially controversial sectors, marketing professionals who promote potentially harmful products are faced with a conflict of values. This is the case for the tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical industries. Between economic logic and established…