Laetitia Thomas- PhD MBA
- Consulant and facilitator at Self-employed
Laetitia Thomas
- PhD MBA
- Consulant and facilitator at Self-employed
Pedagogical Engineer
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Introduction
Laetitia Thomas, Ph.D. MBA, is a researcher on circular economy. A pedagogical engineer, she likes the serious game approach and uses it to provoke emotions stimulating thought on how to change present production and consumption patterns.
A certified consultant with the Circulab method, Laetitia facilitates workshops on the microelectronics value chain and the "textile fresco" (textiles untangled). She is an adjunct professor at Grenoble INP and BSB Dijon.
Current institution
Self-employed
Current position
- Consulant and facilitator
Additional affiliations
September 2021 - present
BSB
Position
- Lecturer
Publications
Publications (7)
This research seeks to understand the interactions among stakeholders supporting Open-Source Hardware Business Models (OSHBMs). To answer our research question “what is the nature of the interaction among stakeholders in OSHBMs at a city level”, the authors conducted a qualitative explorative case study of the city of Barcelona, home to over 1,340...
This study explores the intent of designers involved in design for sustainability and how responsible innovation can be collectively implemented. To do so, a case study using situational analysis was conducted with graduates of the Fabricademy program: a 6-month program on textiles and new technologies taught in a distributed manner out of the Fab...
Open source hardware (OSH) initiatives are collectively managed projects enabled by the internet and digital fabrication tools. They allow people to create products in a cheaper, faster, and more efficient manner. To date, there is no strategic and actionable framework using the commons theory for analyzing how these hardware initiatives develop ec...
To preserve their business model, companies have long protected their innovation processes with patents. « Open source hardware » (OSH) is, on the contrary, a collaborative product development process, where design plans and manufacturing "secrets" are accessible to all. The lines between creators and consumers blur more and more, especially when,...
Open source innovation is a well-studied phenomenon of the ICT sector, but its evolution towards the field of tangible hardware product development is a newer phenomenon which remains mostly theoretical. Existing literature has identified that to push existing open source product development (OSPD) practice towards the achievement of high quality c...
Most academic literature concerning open business model reliance on collaborative ecosystems is firm-centric. However, this phenomenon is spreading to open source product development (OSPD) ventures with undefined legal status. The complex art of choosing a business model becomes more difficult for such projects where non-market considerations are...
This paper draws upon theories of disruptive innovation to propose that disruption in the luxury sector is beginning to occur due to the efforts of sustainable luxury entrepreneurs. Creative destruction is typical in most industry sectors, including luxury, and disruptive innovation by entrepreneurs is key to that process. The paper proposes that t...
