This article puts forward an analysis of the incentives and development policies toward service activities as they are settled by the french Chambers of Commerce and especially by the Lille one. We try to improve our understanding of the place and role of these Chambers of Commerce in local...

In this paper, we put forward an analysis of local and regional incentives and policies toward service activities. After a first historical perspective, we adopt a typological approach which allows us to distinguish between four main policy orientations : policy toward the service providers,...

This article focuses on the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the governance of the fight against poverty in the Third World. Theories of social innovation and empowerment used in the analysis of strategies against poverty are mobilised to analyse governance dynamics of international...

This article, which consists of three interconnected essays, dwells on the meaning and impact of social innovation in societal change, and in particular in territorial development. By way of a condensed literature review, the first essay examines the genesis of the term social innovation in...

This paper gives an overview of models which can be used to analyse regional development as well as to design policies and strategies for the future of regions and localities. It evaluates the analytical and policy relevance of these models, and offers some recommendations for a more structural...