The paper describes fifty years of research activities in regional science of the Southwestern Regional Economics Institute (IERSO, Bordeaux University), first regional economics institute founded in France by Joseph LAJUGIE in 1951. Section 1 underlines the specificities of the approach in...

This article is extracted from a study about the existence of Innovative Environments (IE) in the Sporting Goods Industry (SGI) in the Rhône-Alpes region. On the one hand the purpose of this work is to highlight the downright practical function of the concept of IE within the field of...

Regional science is in constant change, always in search of identity and specificity like an autonomous and legitimate scientific field. Regional Science was on the last twenty years, deeply renewed under the influence of new theories of which the NEG, of different issues and by the arrival of...

The articles included in this collection have originated from a workshop held in Annecy (France) in 2006 to discuss recent developments in the study of territorial dynamics. This special issue does not offer a comprehensive coverage of all the issues of territorial dynamics but the selected...

The groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le développement régional, de l?Est du Québec (GRIDEQ) illustrates one of the lines of transformation of Québécois social sciences : initially close to the sociology as a discipline, it gradually comes closer to regional science by proposing a...

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This paper reviews the history of regional science in Quebec, going back to the period before its formal establishment in the province. From the very beginning, regional science in Quebec was influenced by outside actors and ideas. The fathers of Quebec regional science were French and American....