November 30, 2022 – Environmental Economics Chair (CLEE)
The scientific committee of the CLEE chair met on November 8 to prepare the steering committee which was held in the presence of the partners on November 30. During the meeting of November 30, the doctoral students of the chair, recruited on October 1, had the opportunity to present to the partners the beginning of their work and to propose a work plan for the next three years.
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December 8, 2022 – Open Innovation, Foresight and Management 4.0 in the Digital Era (IOPEN) Chair
A new event between researchers and corporate sponsors of the IOPEN Chair (Open Innovation, Foresight and Management 4.0 in the Digital Era) of the USMB Foundation.
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December 8, 2022 – Sustainable Tourism Chair
The scientific committee of the “Sustainable Tourism” research chair brought together the researchers involved and partners to discuss and detail the research areas that emerged from the prefiguration phase, their development into specific projects and the first fieldwork.
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December 8, 2022 – Sustainable Tourism Chair
The scientific committee of the “Sustainable Tourism” research chair brought together researchers and partners to detail and discuss the research areas that emerged from the prefiguration phase, their development into specific projects and the first fieldwork.
The first axis, devoted to sustainable business models, is based on the start of Angèle Richard’s thesis, supervised by Elodie Gardet and Romain Gandia, in conjunction with the “Grand (La)Bo” project, which constitutes her first field of observation. Uses and conflicts around mid-mountain bivouacs (Dominique Kreziak), representation of Wwoofing (Margot Dyen and Roxane Favier) and the potential of tourists as patrons (project led by Elodie Manthé, with international collaborations) constitute the first fields of investigation of the axis devoted to uses.
Finally, the Courchevel Méribel 2023 World Ski Championships and their articulation with the territorial projects of their host destinations have given rise to a first round of data collection (Dominique Kreziak, Benoit Regent, Véronique Favre-Bonté), which will continue during and after the event, notably with Emilie Ruiz. Axis 3 will be completed by the analysis of the organizational effects of the labeling procedures of mountain resorts, proposed by Matthieu Battistelli. The team is also expanding with the arrival of a research engineer.

Research habilitation defense – Jérémy Tangue (USMB, IREGE), 9th of March

December 8, 2022 
After having benefited from a diagnosis of maturity in terms of open innovation (Axis 1), the partner companies of the IOPEN Chair, together with the IREGE researchers, wanted to go further to understand the conditions favorable to the emergence of an innovation ecosystem (Axis 2). This question, still unresolved at the scientific level, was the subject of an in-depth study based on concrete cases under development in the partner companies. The results feedback session, which took place on December 8, 2022, was another highlight: each company was able to assess the state of progress of its ecosystem, evaluate the conditions (favorable or not) for its emergence, and share recommendations and best practices with the researchers and other companies. A fine example of open innovation that creates collective value! We are already looking forward to the launch of Axis 3, which will seek to evaluate the results of open innovation at the end of the processes undertaken by the member companies of the IOPEN Chair.

Thanks to Alphi, Enedis, Nicomatic, Salomon, Somfy, Pfeiffer Vaccum, Fondation USMB, Grand Annecy, CIFEA MKG for their support.
Members of the IREGE research team: R. Bocquet, R. Gandia, D. Françoise, E. Gardet, S. Dubouloz, C. Mattelin, E. Delfosse, A. Markoff-Legrand, E. Ruiz, M. Battistelli, K. Revet.

Congratulations to Catherine THEVENARD-PUTHOD and Ilham BENSOUNA who received, during the CIFEPME conference, the prize for the best communication of an empirical nature for their article “The trajectories of adoption of CSR practices by SMEs in the hotel sector”.