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International audience; In research and development activities, public research organisations are traditionally in charge of scientific activities while industry is responsible for development. But in times of pandemic, can the actors overcome this division to promote a more efficient way out of the crisis? The authors analyse the place of industry in scientific research on coronaviruses and explore management tools that promote the co-design of knowledge.; Dans les activités de recherche et développement, les organismes publics de recherche sont classiquement en charge des activités scientifiques tandis que les industriels assurent le développement. Mais en période de pandémie, les acteurs peuvent-ils dépasser ce clivage pour favoriser une sortie de crise plus efficiente ? Les auteurs analysent ici la place de l’industrie dans la recherche scientifique sur les coronavirus et explorent des outils de gestion qui favorisent la co-conception des savoirs.

L’examen des tensions et des transformations récentes des entreprises révèle que la décennie quatre-vingt a été marquée par un profond mouvement de rationalisation des systèmes productifs : automatisation des moyens de production, tension des flux, émergence d’équipes autonomes, nouveaux critères de performance… Les progrès accomplis dans cette voie n’ont cependant pas suffi pour assurer la compétitivité des firmes. Ces transformations ont suscité une contestation des formes traditionnelles d...

International audience; While platforms are multiplying across industries, the laws governing their dynamic are still poorly understood. The high diversity of disciplines covering the topic, spanning from strategy management to engineering design, made it difficult for any new model to integrate the numerous phenomena at stakes. In a new effort to bring them together, we exhibit Suh's Axiomatic Design as an ideal framework to systematically analyse platforms dynamics when market and technology forces meet and interact. Exporting the current description of platforms from Design Structure Matrices to Design Matrices, our research enables us to systematically explore platforms potential evolutions. While the model leads us to rediscover classical behaviours, it also uncovers new results, such as situations of split leadership and platform overthrow, in which complementors challenge the platform leader. Both can be linked to two necessary conditions: functional generativity and technical genericity. We then identify those behaviours in several cases.

Organisations trying to innovate, despite being naturally encouraged to use project management and associated rational theories of choice, will necessarily experiment in some way or another due to the high levels of uncertainty and the unknown to be discovered. Exploratory project management may face situations requiring a constant reconfiguration of beliefs and hypotheses as a reaction to external factors. In this paper, we propose to discuss the existence of a generative rationality breaking away from classical decision theory by deliberately reversing preferences and designing decisions., CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017): Special Issue: "Experiments in an organizational context"