Research chairs
Teaching and research Chairs are always supported by one or more companies and are regularly created by means of patronage. Partners sometimes include other schools of the Institut or ParisTech. Within their specific fields, these chairs develop research activities, new training courses and joint events – seminars, workshops and conferences.
Chairs are established for a specific duration – typically five years. They create links between the corporate sector and the school, thus stimulating innovation.
Innovation and Regulation of Digital Services
In 2007, the École Polytechnique, France Télécom Orange and Telecom ParisTech joined forces to create a Teaching and Research Chair for the “Innovation and Regulation of Digital Services”. The aim is to develop and coordinate high-quality theoretical analyses of the following issues:
- Creation, production, development and consumption of intangible services in the information and communication technology sector.
- Dynamics of innovation, principles and tools of regulation and their medium and long-term economic effects.
On these topics, the Chair will also have the authority to provide training courses for practitioners and professionals dealing with economic issues and involved in the regulation of the digital economy.
For further information:
Website of the Chair of Innovation and Regulation of Digital Services
ParisTech Chair of Media and Brand Economics
Launched in 2009, this Chair brings together MINES ParisTech and Telecom ParisTech. The Chair of Media and Brand Economics was established in order to perform a dynamic analysis of the economic and industrial issues of these sectors in the digital environment, and to incorporate this economic dimension into the technical design of the networks of the future.
Digitization, i.e. the encoding of all vectors of meaning into the 0 and 1 alphabet and their global transmission via open technical systems, is revolutionizing the Information sector. Anything that can be encoded into sequences of 0s and 1s thus becomes information. This breakthrough is changing the status and the economics of informational property, with media and brands on the front line of this revolution. Digitization places Information rather than the medium at the heart of the economic rationality of these industries. Media and brands now present themselves as methods of creation and distribution of informational property governed by specific economic and institutional rules.
For further information:
Website for the presentation of the Chair
Chair for the Modelling of Imaginary Environments for Innovation and Creation
This Chair involves Telecom ParisTech, the University of Rennes 2 with Dassault systèmes, Orange Labs, PSA Peugeot Citroën and Ubisoft, with the support of DATAR (Delegation for Territorial Development and Regional Attractiveness - DATAR).
The challenge for this Chair is to understand and formalize the “logics”, archetypes and even the “grammar” of the imaginary environments that form part of the innovation and operating processes of certain technologies.
- The Chair is dedicated to models and the modeling of representations (forms, invented worlds, characters/avatars, etc.) and to the role of narration in innovative and creative processes, particular in multimedia contexts and simulated worlds.
- It is based on the establishment of a set of research problematics, concepts and methodologies with a view to developing formalizations, developments, applications and experimentations.
- It is positioned “upstream” of innovation processes at the point where the intuitions, concepts, dreams and imaginations of engineers, decision-makers, customers, designers and different stakeholders merge and intermingle.
