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B. Weil and . Paristech, Chair of Design Theory and Methods for Innovation. His research areas are

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O. Shai and Y. Reich, Infused design. II. Practice, Research in Engineering Design, vol.15, issue.2, pp.108-121, 2004.
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A. Hatchuel and B. Weil, Design as Forcing: deepening the foundations of C-K theory, International Conference on Engineering Design, p.12, 2007.

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O. Kokshagina, P. L. Masson, and B. Weil, How design theories enable the design of generic technologies: notion of generic concepts and Genericity building operators, International Conference on Engineering Design, pp.13-2013

O. Kokshagina and . Others, Platform emergence in double unknown: common challenge strategy, R&D Management Conference, pp.2012-2037
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