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Foresight: understanding the methodology

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Case study: how Shell anticipated the 1973 oil crisis

Interview de Benjamin Cabanes, Lecturer at Mines Paris - PSL & at the MIE department of École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Orso Roger, Research Engineer at Institut des Hautes Etudes pour l'Innovation et l'Entrepreneuriat (IHEIE/PSL), Liliana Doganova, Researcher at Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation at Ecole des Mines de Paris

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How can foresight help us imagine the future?

Interview de Benjamin Cabanes, Lecturer at Mines Paris - PSL & at the MIE department of École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Orso Roger, Research Engineer at Institut des Hautes Etudes pour l'Innovation et l'Entrepreneuriat (IHEIE/PSL), Liliana Doganova, Researcher at Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation at Ecole des Mines de Paris

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The scenario method: an aid to strategic planning

Interview de Benjamin Cabanes, Lecturer at Mines Paris - PSL & at the MIE department of École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Orso Roger, Research Engineer at Institut des Hautes Etudes pour l'Innovation et l'Entrepreneuriat (IHEIE/PSL), Liliana Doganova, Researcher at Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation at Ecole des Mines de Paris

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What does the future hold for visual health?

Interview de Mathieu Feuillade, Director of the SciFI Lab at EssilorLuxottica R&D

Patricia Crifo
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China: are air conditioners at odds with climate ambitions?

Avec Patricia Crifo, Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On September 17th, 2025
4 min reading time
π Economics π Geopolitics

Tariffs: should the EU respond before 9th July?

Avec Isabelle Méjean, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po

On July 3rd, 2025
6 min reading time

On 9 July 2025, the temporary freeze on reciprocal tariffs imposed by the United States on a large number of trading partners will come to an end.

π Economics π Planet π Geopolitics

Can green finance weather the Trump storm?

Avec Peter Tankov, Professor of Quantitative Finance at ENSAE (IP Paris), Olivier David Zerbib, Researcher at CREST and Assistant Professor at ENSAE (IP Paris)

On June 25th, 2025
6 min reading time

In the age of Trump, green finance is being called into question for political reasons as the climate emergency intensifies.

π Economics π Planet π Society

Can insurers save the planet (and themselves)?

Avec Fanny Henriet , CNRS Research Director at Aix-Marseille School of Economics and Lecturer at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris), Christian Gollier, Executive Director at Toulouse School of Economics

On June 11th, 2025
4 min reading time

Faced with global warming, it is now crucial for insurance companies to address environmental issues and climate disasters.

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Can Big Tech be taxed more? The true, the false and the uncertain

Avec Martin Collet, Professor at Université Paris Panthéon-Assas

On June 11th, 2025
5 min reading time

True, false or uncertain? GAFAMs benefit from more advantageous tax regimes than traditional companies in Europe...

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π Geopolitics π Economics

EU arms race: rising budgets, disparate capabilities

Avec Léo Péria-Peigné, Researcher at the Ifri Centre for Security Studies

On May 21st, 2025
3 min reading time