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This article aims to analyze the Quebec government's policies on nanotechnologies in the early 2000s and on artificial intelligence (AI) from the mid-2000s on. The comparison between the past fervor for nanotechnologies and the present fervor for AI reveals a number of similarities between the public actions implemented to bring out and develop these two state-of-the-art technologies. In both cases, we show from the perspective of the so-called promise economy how different stakeholders are building and promoting an inescapable technological and economic future in order to gain political support, secure wider social approval for their projects and, above all, capture important public financial and material resources that are essential for establishing industrial and commercial activity. The case of nanotechnology, for which we now have more hindsight, makes it possible to assess the gap between initial promises and what actually happened. It also provides food for thought to critically address the current government support for AI and the discourse on its future economic benefits in Quebec.
Keywords: économie de la promesse, nanotechnologies, intelligence artificielle, politique technologique, innovation, sociologie des attentes, promise economy, nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence, technology policy, innovation, sociology of expectations
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This article discusses a qualitative interview project where twenty tenants shared their experiences about having hearings at the Office of Residential Tenancies [the ORT], Saskatchewan's housing law tribunal. The interviews provide insights into housing problems faced by tenants, their experiences with self-representation at the ORT, and their reflections about the outcomes of their cases. We analyze how tenants prepared for their hearings, their experiences of the hearing process, and their perceptions of fairness throughout the process. We then discuss participants' assessments of whether they received “justice” at the ORT. The interviews illuminate the ways that the same patterns of power and inequality that produce housing problems in the first place persist but are also occasionally interrupted and exposed in the housing tribunal process. They show also that tenants use the ORT to make important claims about justice and to resist landlord power in the face of larger patterns of inequality and exploitation.
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Reflections on the unpredictability of the crisis, its impact on the company and its management processes, and specific actions to be taken in extreme environment have identified two schools of thought: the first addresses the crisis in terms of an unforeseen event destabilizing and paralyzing the company, and the second tackles the crisis from the perspective of a business process. The main question of this article concerns the identification of situations in which the company must consider the crisis as an event, and the situations in which, the crisis must be approached as procedural. Each of the two approaches to the crisis have peculiarities that may shed light on crisis situations.
Keywords: crise, gestion de crise, cas extrêmes, communication de crise, approches gestion de crise, cellules de crise
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This article characterizes the influence of the specificities of start-ups and the features of an ecosystem of mobility orchestrated by public actors, on the strategies adopted by start-ups to protect their innovation. We identify four main strategies and show: (1) the diversity of protection modes employed, the role of contracts as tools of protection, and the importance of the data protection problematic; (2) the influence of start-ups' specificities (type of innovation, nature of the concurrence, size of firm) and ecosystem of mobility's features (orchestration by a public actor, local emergent ecosystem), which condition the intensity of concurrence, size of the market, and risks liked one the collaboration of actors.
Keywords: Protection de l'innovation, propriété intellectuelle, brevet, secret, protection formelle de l'innovation, protection informelle de l'innovation, écosystème, mobilité, start-up, ville, Protection of innovation, intellectual property, patent, secret, formal protection of innovation, informal protection of innovation, ecosystem, mobility, start-up, city, Protección de la innovación, protección de los derechos de autor, patentes, secreto, modos de protección formales, modos de protección informales, ecosistema, movilidad, puesta en marcha, ciudad
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Russia, while showcasing a rhetorical convergence with China in the fields of cyber-sovereignty and cybersecurity, aims at cementing its relationship with China beyond traditional areas of cooperation, undertaking the securitization of cyberspace as well as displaying power shift away from the West. The global level is essential in order to grasp the respective convergences and divergences of China and Russia in relation to the United States, which remain preeminent in cyberspace. Considered both as a domain and an instrument in the service of objectives, cyberspace nevertheless reveals, beyond the narrowness of the bilateral cooperation, a growing asymmetry between the two countries, driven by divergent approaches to the evolution of the international system, and by specific economic factors. This asymmetry, unfavorable to Russia, does not prevent this country from deepening its cyber cooperation with China.
Keywords: Russie, Chine, cyberespace, cybersécurité, diplomatie, gouvernance, Russia, China, cyberspace, cybersecurity, diplomacy, governance