Industry is still a key-sector for the economical development of our country but it must challenge new environmental requirements. It is the main purpose of the public innovation policies. The regional and local actors are very often short of methodological frames to comprehend those evolutions...

Chemical activities are confronted with the necessity of their transformation to match the new social and environmental requirements. This paper aims to show that Employment patterns are key elements of such a transformation, by their material characteristics as well by their institutional ones....

Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key characteristics and requirements of the forms of cluster...