notions of « industrial district » or « clusters ». Encouraged by more recent works of Porter (1998), national volontaries … foundations of the performance of the clusters and conditions of their implementation. Thus, after a literature review where we … put in obviousness elements fastened to the industrial district performance and clusters (and more largely to phenomenon …

innovation production level, such as the Competitiveness Clusters. The aim of this paper is to provide a case study that …

modes of co-operation: ‘community based co-operation’, based on the need to belong, and ‘complementary co-operation’, which …-analysis framework. This framework forms the basis of our analysis of the interaction between cultural diversity and co-operation … influence on issues of identity involved in co-operation. However, it reveals a strong link between cultural diversity and …

influence private research, and conversely. Researchers of these two spheres develop important relations of cooperation. We then … show that spillovers can diffuse through cooperation in upstream and downstream phases of the innovation process. On the …

channels for spillovers diffusion. The main interest of this paper is to introduce cooperation as a channel of spillovers …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relation between implicit/explicit incentives and cooperation in teams … (COI), we identify some crucial practices of teamwork and assess their impact on cooperation among colleagues, hourly … salary and the employees’ perceptions about their working environment. According to the theoretical literature, cooperation …

translate into negotiation and co-operation. …

This paper argues that cooperation among competitors is facilitated by social processes (among others: learning …