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D-MTEC experts address issues of society, economy, and business. The D-MTEC Media Update lists their recent articles, interviews, and commentaries. Last week, the first mass-produced shields by the helpfulETH-initative have been delivered to hospitals. D-MTEC's Professor Torbjørn Netland helped to scale up production.

D-MTEC experts address issues of society, economy, and business. The D-MTEC Media Update lists their recent articles, interviews, and commentaries. Petra Schmid, Professor for Organizational Behavior, states that power boosts individual character traits. Jan-​Egbert Sturm, Director of KOF Swiss Economic Institute, expects a slower recovery compared to the recent downturn of the Swiss economy.

The corona crisis is increasingly manifesting itself in a pronounced and prolonged weakness in investment, which is making the return to economic normality with higher employment more difficult. With an adjustment of the COVID-19 credit programme through an extension, a refocusing on investments and a progressive guarantee reduction, economic recovery can be accelerated without placing a heavy burden on the government's budget.

D-MTEC experts address issues of society, economy, and business. The D-MTEC Media Update lists their recent articles, interviews, and commentaries. Isabel Martínez points out that the current crisis has shed new light on pre-existing gender imbalances as new columnist of Handelszeitung. Lucas Bretschger urges to get ready for a fossil-free economy.

Ann-Kathrin Leiting has won the EFMD Case Writing Award 2019 for her teaching case on corporate entrepreneurship within Bosch, a German global high-tech manufacturer. She analysed how disruptive ideas emerge in a company rich in tradition, what hurdles new concepts have to overcome, and how corporate entrepreneurship can effect change in an established business culture.

D-MTEC experts address issues of society, economy, and business. The D-MTEC Media Update lists their recent articles, interviews, and commentaries. Post-corona Switzerland will look different, but it is coming. Yet, some will struggle more than others, state our researchers.

D-MTEC experts address issues of society, economy, and business. The D-MTEC Media Update lists their recent articles, interviews, and commentaries. While the Swiss service sector is struggling, global biotech investments are soaring. And yet: the Financial Crisis Observatory (Didier Sornette) currently sees no major bubble in capital flows to promisors of a Covid-19 vaccine.