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D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentary. The Swiss can go on holiday in Switzerland again relatively quickly, says Jan-Egbert Sturm, Head of KOF Swiss Economic Institute. Europeans are not so far away either, but it will take a while until the distant markets such as China return to Swiss tourism.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentary. Continual learning has long been a part of computer science. Stefan Feuerriegel, Professor of Management Information Systems, sees potential to create advanced AI-based medical devices which continuously update on the basis of new data. This allows performance improvement, through personalisation and removal of errors.

Mahsa Khoshnama grew up in Isfahan and earned Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Sharif University in Tehran. She then decided to embark on a new path and came to D-MTEC to study economics. In autumn 2021 she will become the first Iranian to join the PhD programme in Economics at Princeton University. We took this opportunity to talk to her about her journey.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentary. “It is not yet time to reduce debts and start saving,” says Jan-Egbert Sturm, Director of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute. “We have just been putting out a fire, so to speak, and while we are still extinguishing it, we don’t need to think about whether to turn down the water. At the moment, we still have to extinguish the fire.”

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Extreme weather poses increasing challenges to the agricultural sector. New insurance models based on satellite data may reduce the risk of drought for farmers, says Robert Finger, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy. Authorities could facilitate such models by giving all those involved better access to data sources.

In October 2020, the Competence Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering & Science published its first research call “Changing Behaviours”. Out of the four promising proposals that were submitted, a board of experts awarded the grant to the project “User-​led innovation in online communities: An exploratory study of the design principles and the diffusion of affordable rehabilitation technology”, co-hosted at D-MTEC's Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentaries. Part-time jobs in construction are rare, although the family-friendly working model could tackle the shortage of skilled workers. According to Daniel Kopp of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute it depends on the will of companies to invest in processes and structures that make part-time work possible.