"This Handbook is a state-of-the-art analysis of proximity relations, offering insights into its history alongside up-to-date scientific advances and emerging questions. Its broad scope - from industrial and innovation approaches through to society issues of living and working at a distance,...

Inter-firm co-operation has dramatically increased during the 80?s. However, this growth has not led to an analysis of the spatial dimension of this cooperation. Using the conceptual framework of the proximity we aim in this paper to analyse the way firms in the agro-food industry combine both...

<i> Geographical Proximity and Circulation of Knowledge Through Inter-Firm Cooperation </i> (by Delphine Gallaud and André Torre) - ABSTRACT: The production of scientific and technological innovations has become essential for many firms, but they are seldom in possession of all the necessary...