Jacques P. BersierHaute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg HES-SO//FR HEIA-FR
Jacques P. Bersier
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Introduction
Jacques P. Bersier currently works at the Direction, HES-SO HEIA-FR. Jacques does research in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Education and Electrical Engineering. Their current project is 'AlpLinkBioEco Interreg VB'.
Additional affiliations
September 2002 - present
HES-SO//FR HEIA-FR
Position
- Managing Director
September 1984 - August 2009
Position
- Professor
Description
- Enseignement de la mécanique technique, de l'analyse de structures par la méthode des éléments finis, de conception assistée par ordinateur, de l'analyse dynamique des systèmes multi-corps. Responsable du laboratoire de CFAO de 1985 à 2002.
Education
September 1992 - July 1994
September 1976 - September 1978
Ecole d'ingénieurs du soir de Lausanne
Field of study
- Electrotechnique
September 1973 - June 1975
Ecole d'ingénieurs et d'architectes de Fribourg
Field of study
- Mécanique
Publications
Publications (26)
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Biorefineries are an important pillar to conduct the transition toward a circular bioeconomy. Forestry value chains produce wood biomass from harvesting and processing residues that have potential to be used in biorefineries, but currently, these residues are mostly used for energy generation. New biorefineries and new methodologies of wood fractio...
The concept of “eco-innovation” has been increasingly used in environmental policy to analyze an innovation system taking into account social, ecological and economic pillars of sustainability. The aim of this study is to develop a set of eco-innovation indicators suitable to analyze the forest-wood chain at local level. The study was structured in...
Over the last couple of decades, many peer-reviewed publications focused on the bioeconomy, which it is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to global challenges (climate change, ecosystem degradation). This study investigates the scientific literature on forest bioeconomy by applying a social network analysis to the bibliometric scie...
In 2009 the European Union (EU) introduced the macro-regional strategy approach as a policy framework allowing countries located in the same region to jointly tackle common challenges. There is no doubt that macro-regional approaches can pave the way towards a more innovative, sustainable and greener Europe. But to make it work, the involved actors...
The ongoing debates on updating Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) in the European innovation policy framework mainly focus on practical implementation challenges. This paper draws on the specific experience from the Interreg Alpine Space project S3- 4AlpClusters, which put the interplay between S3 and clusters at the core of its conceptual and p...
Final Publication of the Interreg VB Alpine Space Project S3-4AlpClusters.
Editors:
Jacques Bersier and Michael Keller
Authors:
Dominique Foray
Professor, Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation, EPFL
Jacques Bersier
Lead Partner S3-4AlpClusters, Deputy Director HES-SO//FR HEIA-FR
Michael Keller
Lead Partner S3-4AlpClusters, Adjoint Scie...
In the context of regional economic development, there is an increasing interest to identify industrial transformation processes that lead to the emergence of new value chains and related industries. Such processes can provide competitive advantage for regions if they are timely identified and properly supported and represent huge potentials for re...
The S3-4AlpClusters project aims at enhancing smart industrial transition in the regions of the Alpine Space by facilitating innovation through cluster initiatives and initiating interregional cooperation. Recent experiences show that the identification and development of transformative activities-i.e. the innovation capacities and actions that hav...
This #methodologicalpaper addresses the challenges in #S3 implementation by drafting a workshop methodology for the identification and the development of #transformative activities. More specifically, it aims at supportingregional agencies in setting up a process of establishing priorities (identification and selection of transformative activities)...
Transformative activities can be understood as an accumulation of innovation-related activities of a group of actors targeting the same (technical, market or industrial) area and having the potential to significantly transform existing industries. They provide huge potential for regions to develop and ultimately to create jobs in innovative new are...
For eight years, the Science and Technology Centre (PST-FR) of the canton of Fribourg (Switzerland) aims to be a driver for both productivity and creation of high-value-added employment. It is a result of the " innovation support " component of the 2008-2015 New Regional Policy and has the mission to create and sustain thematic clusters in regional...
The Alpine Space Economy is largely based on SMEs and clusters is a powerful tool
to enhance competitiveness. Transnational clusters networks or meta-clusters are a
step forward to favour cross-border cooperation and to increase the international
visibility of cluster initiatives, in line with the EU strategic priority of establishing worldclass
cl...
Fostering Inter-Cluster Collaboration through Meta-Clusters
Today’s innovation process is truly global. Innovative multinational companies have developed complex organisational structures to integrate the distinctive knowledge from the various regions in the world in their innovation processes. Hence, companies that source their knowledge globally...
Today almost every workplace in the R&D departments of the machine industry is equipped with a tool for finite element analysis (FEA) or is at least prepared for the introduction of such a tool. Usually it is integrated in the CAD system and is easily applied. Only a few engineers, however, have sufficient knowledge of this powerful method from the...
Conçu comme un manuel d’utilisateur, complété de commentaires et de rappels
théoriques, ce livre s’adresse tout particulièrement aux nouveaux utilisateurs du
logiciel I-DEASMaster Series for Simulation et aux ingénieurs désirant approfondir
leurs connaissances dans le domaine de l’analyse de structure par la méthode des
éléments finis. L’auteur n’a...
Le livre s'adresse aux étudiants des départements de mécanique et d'électrotechnique des Hautes Ecoles Spécialisées (HES) ainsi qu'à tout ingénieur praticien désireux d'approfondir ses connaissances en mécanique technique. Le volume traite de la cinématique et de la dynamique du point matériel, du corps solide rigide et des systèmes de corps, dans...
Projects
Projects (8)
The project develops a multi-level, multi-national, coherent RDI area for the AS (Alpine RDI Area – ARDIA), following the need stressed by EUSALP. ARDIA is incorporated in a smart way into already existing governance structures with the aim of improving
the framework conditions for cross-regional and cross-sectoral cooperation addressing common economic opportunities.
In the last 2 decades the plastic sector in the Alpine Space has suffered tremendous crisis due to great international competition caused by:
- Low cost labor countries;
- High Technology countries, such as North American countries or Japan, investing in new high quality/automated processes;
- The severe international financial/economical crisis.
Companies that survived above-mentioned crisis are today very active and dynamic, but they are facing the main challenge of being competitive in a market that is probably even more difficult.
The key elements of competitiveness will be:
1. High technical quality of the products, to be obtained by most Advanced Productions Tech-niques and concepts;
2. Acceptable product cost to be obtained by automation and efficient technologies;
3. High design quality;
4. High level of sustainability of the products/processes.
ALPlastics will create multilevel (level 1 SMES-HE, level 2 Cluster Management Bodies, level 3 Policy Making Bodies) instruments for clusters animation and management. The final aim will be to generate pilot intercluster activities focused on the « Innovation & Knowledge economy » to:
- Develop cooperation and networking in the Alpine PLASTICS MACRO CLUSTER;
- Develop a PLASTICS COMPETENCE NETWORK able to strengthen R&D and innovation capabilities of SMEs by encouraging technology transfer and stable cooperation between RTD center and SMEs at regional and transregional level;
- Develop a TRANSNATIONAL PLASTICS ACADEMY, a pilot initiative for vocational training and knowledge management in the field of plastics.
