Professor François-Éric Racicot was appointed to the advisory board of the prestigious finance journal Aestimatio, published by the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles in Madrid, Spain. He is the only Canadian member of the six-member group which includes two Nobel winners in economics. An associate professor of finance at the Telfer School of Management, he was also recently named to the editorial board of the Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds.

Professor Racicot has published numerous studies in peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of several graduate-level texts in quantitative finance and financial econometrics. He teaches courses in business valuation, options and futures and international financial management, among other areas.

Professor François Chiocchio has been appointed Affiliated Researcher at the Institut de Recherche de l'Hôpital Montfort (IRHM) until 2016. Research at the IRHM centres on mental health, primary health care, nutrition and metabolism, and family health. Professor Chiocchio’s role at the Institute will be to study interdisciplinary collaboration in health teams and how service improvement projects are managed.

Chiocchio is an associate professor in organizational behaviour and human resource management at the Telfer School. His research focuses on teamwork and collaboration has been funded by the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), the Project Management Institute's Research program, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Research by Laurent Mirabeau and Muriel Mignerat of the Telfer School of Management and Camille Grange of HEC Montréal on “The Utility of Using Social Media Networks for Data Collection in Survey Research” was presented and published at an international conference in Italy. This research-in-progress paper comparing and discussing the benefits of six generic strategies for reaching survey candidates on social media networks was part of the proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems in Milan, Italy, December 15-18, 2013.

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Professor Sandra Schillo’s collaboration with the research organization Fraunhofer is translating into new opportunities for knowledge exchange between Canada and Germany on science and innovation systems. Schillo, assistant professor in innovation and entrepreneurship at the Telfer School of Management, and her counterpart Rainer Frietsch of the Fraunhofer ISI, were co-organizers of the workshop “Science Systems in Canada and Germany: Structures, Policies and Changes” in Berlin on November 29. It was hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and held at the Canadian Embassy in connection with the 22nd Meeting of the German – Canadian Commission for Scientific and Technological Cooperation.

Workshop participants heard presentations from, among others, Mona Nemer, Vice-Dean Research at the University of Ottawa; Elizabeth Dowdeswell. O.C., President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies, Mo Elbestawi, VP Research and International Affairs at McMaster University; and experts from the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and the German Science Council. The panel discussions led to valuable dialogue on what makes Canada and Germany similar or different – or even distinctive – with regard to research environments, science in universities, assessment of science and innovation, science and technology priorities and science policy, and technology transfer. Also on the agenda were the models of collaboration that Canada and other countries have developed with the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft – Europe’s largest applied-research organization, with institutes spread throughout Germany.

The workshop identified the paramount importance of internationalization strategies and joint programs; framework conditions for research organizations; optimization of existing partnerships; adaptation to new frameworks for innovation within the academic system, and new approaches to the assessment of science and innovation. The opportunity to share knowledge on these issues and to further develop the Fraunhofer-Telfer School of Management-University of Ottawa partnership will be explored in a follow up workshop planned for spring 2014 in Ottawa.

Sandra Schillo joined the Telfer School in 2012 and her work focuses on the challenges of public research systems. She completed her doctoral studies at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, University of Kiel, Germany. She obtained her Masters' degree in Engineering Management from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.