Nowadays, innovation is the main factor of firms and regions competitiveness. But, the conditions necessary to improve its development remain still unknown, particularly there are few works about spatial aspects of its appearance. Few monographs exist on the efficiency of 'local' networks, but...

The production of scientific and technological innovations has become essential for many firms, but the latter are seldom in possession of all the knowledge needed for this activity because of the increasing complexity of knowledge bases or because R&D departments are too small. As they do not...

During the eighties, small Sme's of the so-called « Third Italy » obtain high performances. So Italian scholars ( Baganasco, 1977, Becattini, 1979, Brusco, 1982) underline some elements that remind the English districts studied by Marshall. These works open the way to a set of theories based...

Le développement du modèle d’open innovation (Chesbrough, 2003) incite les entreprises à mobiliser de plus en plus de sources externes pour améliorer les performances de leur processus de développement d’innovation. Or dans un modèle où de plus en plus de développeurs appartiennent...

Dans le cadre des coopérations pour innover, le brevet a toujours eu plus d’importance pour les entreprises que les autres moyens d’appropriation, car il permet de clarifier les droits de propriété de chacun des partenaires (Cassiman, Veugelers, 2002). Cependant, les travaux effectués...

Economics of proximity analyses the articulation of organizational and geographic proximity. Innovation projects, above all when they are lead in cooperation can lead to conflicts between the members of the projects. We shall demonstrate in this contribution that conflict resolution is the...