The effect of a firm's size is analysed in relation with the probability of applying for a patent. We worked on the identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size the costs associated with protection are so...

Smart specialisation is an innovative policy concept which emphasizes the principle of prioritisation in a vertical logic (to favour some technologies, fields, population of firms) and defines a method to identify such desirable areas for innovation policy intervention. Its rationale involves...

This paper builds on the economic fundamentals of smart specialization. It starts explaining a coherent vision of the goals of this policy approach and then, explores the requirements and implications that are consistent with giving an operational content to this conceptualization. The smart...

The objective of this thesis is the positive and normative analysis of the organization of military research, development and technology, in France, in the present period. The research tackles theoretical and empirical questions related to knowledge economics and the organisation of R&D. It is...

Cette étude porte sur l’évaluation économique d’une nouvelle procédure de politique technique mise en oeuvre à la DGA depuis 1997 : le Programme d’Etude Amont (PEA). Il s’agit d’une nouvelle méthode d’initialisation et de suivi des études amont, réalisée à l’instigation...

The paper addresses two issues. One concerns the general conditions and procedures involved in the emergence of a tool industry. Tool industries emerge and evolve as a collection of capital goods and tool inventors and manufacturers. One of our goals is to use some of the works on historical...

This paper builds on the economic fundamentals of smart specialization. It starts explaining a coherent vision of the goals of this policy approach and then, explores the requirements and implications that are consistent with giving an operational content to this conceptualization. The smart...