Beyond their function of protecting and rewarding innovation, patents are increasingly used as mediation instruments and as vehicles for interactions. Focusing on the development of new, genetically engineered vaccines, we show that they are central components of the production of innovation. A...

<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"--> ?This article aims at analysing the mechanisms by which a large Research Infrastructure, here a synchrotron, co-constructs the ecosystem to which it belongs and uses it in order to sustain and feed its own evolution dynamics. Our analysis relies on the study of the French synchrotron SOLEIL. We...