Research Chairs - Quebec
Our research chairs
Beyond the numerous research projects they initiate, Bell University Labs also create research chairs at several partner universities. Attracting reputable researchers, these chairs are prestigious centres for research as well as the dissemination and transfer of knowledge between the scientific community, the industry and the government, thus contributing to the advancement of science in strategic areas for Bell and the community.
Bell Canada Chair in Industrial Economy
Chair holder: Marcel Boyer, Université de Montréal- The Bell Industrial Economics Chair is dedicated to research on the following themes: 1. the evaluation of investments through the real options approach, specifically as it applies to the telecommunications sector; 2. the competition policy in non-standard environments (competition between networks, competition between partners within a network, competition and intellectual property protection, competition between the public and private sectors, regulation and competition, specifically in industries where regulated and unregulated business compete); 3. the cost sharing and the pricing of joint infrastructures.
- Bell Chair in E-Governance
Chair holder: Richard Gold, McGill University- The purpose of this Chair is to address those new economy issues related to policy, regulatory and legal frameworks as well as management and entrepreneurship issues related to organizational change and development and to management, sustainability and corporate ethics. Researchers will examine the ways in which electronic-based technology in this new economy challenges traditional business practices and legal concepts and how these practices and concepts themselves create the need for further technological changes.
- Bell Chair in Electronic Marketing
Chair holder: Ulf Bockenholt, McGill University- The focus of research in this Chair will be on the psychology of e-consumers as they move along the search/purchase/consumption processes, and on the translation of this knowledge into strategies that take into account the new economics of cybermarkets. In fact, the way consumers access and use goods and service is altered irreversibly by the abundance, diversity, and flexibility of Internet sites and tools, and, as a result, branding and other marketing strategies have to be reconsidered.
- Bell Chair in Interdisciplinary Research on Emerging Technologies
Chair holder: André H. Caron, Université de Montréal - Bell Chair in Psychology of Electronic Communication
Chair holder: Daniel Levitin, McGill University- The purpose of this Chair is is to work on several issues of fundamental importance to the future of broadband technology and electronic communication: (1) setting benchmarks for evaluating consumer satisfaction with the quality of audio and video transmissions over the Internet, with applications to electronic commerce, as well as to music and video downloading and streaming; (2) performing basic research on the perception of intermodal (sound, video, and touch) communication; (3) working toward the development of neuroscientific theories that govern human perception and communication; (4) developing new statistical models and quantitative techniques that can be used for characterizing the use of broadband communication.
- Bell Chair in Technology and Work Organization
Chair holders: Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay; Yves-Chantal Gagnon, Université du Québec, TÉLUQ - Bell Chair in Telecommunications Networks Architecture
Chair holder: Steven Chamberland, École Polytechnique de Montréal- Actual telecommunications networks have to be streamlined and managed at lower costs. Presently, the tendency is to use an architecture for the backbone network which is using the IP protocol (Internet Protocol) with a multiwavelength optical transport infrastructure in order to offer all services. Still, technical problems remain to be resolved and, particularly for the optical transport part. The Bell Chair in Networks Architecture focus on these problems and seeks to find network architectures, protocols and softwares that will allow an optimal performance of the network infrastructure and streamline its management.
- Bell/CDP Chair in Experimental Economy
Chair holder: Claude Montmarquette, Université de Montréal- The research work done by the Chair in experimental economy is set at the junction of psychological, political, human and management sciences, and will allow to experiment and compare in laboratory the environments, behaviours and institutions and to evaluate their relative efficiency. Hence, it will test and analyse the implications of certain social politics ant private management decisions without having to take on expensive “natural” experiments. Promoting the experimental approach to different public (governmental, industrial, academic, etc.) is also part of the plans.
- Bell/J.V.R. Cyr Chair in Value Creation and Commercialization
Chair holder: Jozée Lapierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal- The Chair aims at promoting knowledge development in the economic sector linked to professional services in information and communication technologies (ICT) in reference to two poles: value creation on the client’s side and commercialization strategies on the provider’s side.
The Chair’s objectives are: 1. To promote research quality and academic outreach; 2. To foster exchanges with the business community; 3.To help graduate and doctoral students to execute their projects and master’s thesis on practical and academic subjects in the following fields of interest : professional services, ICT, value (received and expected), relational marketing and commercialization strategies.
Historical background: From 1991 to 1996, the mission of the Chair was in the scope of technology management and technological innovations process and their optimization. From 1996 to 2001, the mission of the Chair was to: 1. Provide teaching resources for a «Technology Entrepreneurship» module within the modular Technology Management master’s degree; 2. Orient and organize the « Centre d'entrepreneuship HEC-Poly-UdeM »’s activities around the innovations axis and initiate an annual campus-wide contest for most innovative ideas; 3. Support a research axis based on entrepreneurship within large organizations (intrapreneurship). From 2001 to 2005, the mission of the Chair was to encourage students’ entrepreneurial spirit.
- The Chair aims at promoting knowledge development in the economic sector linked to professional services in information and communication technologies (ICT) in reference to two poles: value creation on the client’s side and commercialization strategies on the provider’s side.
- Chair for SMB’s of International Caliber
Chair holder: Pierre-André Julien, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières- Available soon
- Chair in Competence Management
Chair holder: Ginette Legault, Université du Québec à Montréal- Available soon
- Chair in Tourism at UQAM
Chair holder: Michel Archambault, Université du Québec à Montréal - L. R. Wilson Chair in Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law
Chair holder: Pierre Trudel, Université de Montréal - NSERC/Bell/Cisco Chair in e-Business Design
Chair holder: Benoit Montreuil, Université Laval- The purpose of this Chair is to conceive and reinvent businesses in the realm of the new, e-business dominated economy. It focuses its action on business design, planning and engineering in high-speed connected environments in order to allow businesses to capitalize on the availability of e-technologies. The chair targets business executives and professional teams who plan businesses and make them evolve. It concentrates on the dynamic development of businesses' e-business vision; the design and continuous update of businesses' virtual ebusiness models, that guide the decision making process of executives in action; as well as the planning and management of strategic actions and projects that allow evolution from the current state to the e-business vision.
- Unesco-Bell Chair for Communications and International Development
Chair holder: Magda Fusaro; Jean-Paul Lafrance, Université du Québec à Montréal
For inquiries: innovations@bell.ca