Oliver Coste

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Oliver Coste
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Oliver Coste is an entrepreneur and a corporate executive of the tech industry. He currently provides consulting services for companies active in Artificial Intelligence.

After working at the European Commission (DG Competition, then Cabinet of Commissioner de Silguy), he joined the office of the French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, where he worked namely on the transformation of Airbus into an integrated company. He worked for Alcatel-Lucent where he managed several activities with European or worldwide presence and created a mobile television business which got traction in Europe, the USA and India.

Policy Brief - Cost of Failure and Competitiveness in Disruptive Innovation
2015

We find that the profitability of high-risk tech companies, associated with high rates of failure, is very dependent on the cost of restructuring, which itself is driven by employment protection legislation.