This paper studies the effects of income, education and active memberships in voluntary organizations and clubs on "social capital" by using individual French data and allowing for parameter heterogeneity (Durlauf and Fafchamps, 2003). Survey responses to the questions concerning trust, social...

In this paper we study the relationship between the relative size of the U.S. nonprofit sector and population heterogeneity, at the county level, by adopting and extending the model of Alesina, Baquir and Easterly (1999). The relative size of the voluntary sector is assessed as a share of...

Avec l'élaboration en 2006 de son Schéma régional de développement économique (SRDE) et d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche (SRERS), la Région PACA a placé l'innovation au cœur de sa politique de développement économique. La Stratégie régionale de l'innovation (SRI) définie...

Jamendo, est un site de téléchargement légal gratuit de musique. Cette plate-forme de musique " libre " en ligne, la plus grande au monde, fonctionne sur la base de licences Creative Commons. L'enquête que nous présentons ici a été réalisée auprès d'un échantillon de 767 artistes,...

Jamendo is a website for the legal, free downloading of music. This platform of "free" online music, the biggest in the world, operates on the basis of Creative Commons licences. The survey presented here was carried out on a sample of 767 artists (solo musicians or groups) who are members of...

The participation of firms in Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities is growing and is increasingly debated amongst scholars. As [41] explained, FLOSS needs profit and we do not know successfull floss products without firms in their ecosystem, either being via the financial support...

During the recent years, clusters have been at the heart of a vast literature supposed to bring new arguments and perspectives to local development preoccupations. Two complementary factors are stressing for firms and territories the importance of governing the interactions of industrial actors:...

L'industrie marseillaise tend aujourd'hui à s'organiser à l'échelle de sa métropole. Mais unetelle tendance n'a pas toujours été de soi. D'abord organisée autour de son port et dans l'articulation avec l'outre-mer et notamment l'empire colonial, le complexe industrialoportuaire ne...

The spread of free/libre open source software (FLOSS) represents one of the most important developments in the Information Technology (IT) industry in recent years. Within the context of a knowledge-based economy, this sort of approach appears exemplary for a growing number of industrial...

Free, libre or open source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in a growing proportion, by firms that hire programmers for their own objectives of development in open source or for contributing to open source projects in the context of...