One of the main themes covered over the past decade in the macroeconomic literature is that of the convergence of regional or national economies. In this article, this research approach is applied to the evolution of the weight of French higher education in the total numbers of school enrolment...

In this paper, we expose the economic conditions of cities emergence in a spatial general equilibrium framework. The presence of increasing returns based on the division of labour, transport costs and the possible existence of an agricultural surplus generate different possible urban...

The effect of proximity on development has fostered much interest over recent years and STORPER has put forward the hypothesis of a winning configuration for the 3rd millenium, that is one based on innovation, organizations and territory. Our research was conducted with firms of three high tech...

This paper aims at presenting an integrated view of some of the main results obtained in the so-called « New Economic Geography. To this end, an alternative model is used, which allows one to derive results that are both analytical and simple. This model is then used to investigate various...

To overtake the approaches based on the resolution of a productive problem, this text analyses territorial dynamics through labour. The notion of hybridisation, which enhances the entanglement of the labour forms and statutes, characterises the current phase of capitalism. Mobility and...

The aim of this article is the construction of an innovation networks classification based on geographic and electronic proximities. This classification is tested by a quantitative approach based on a sample of 77 NPD projects in the French industry. Last, the respective roles of the two...

Fast food development is not any more centered on homogenous world products. Fast food chains are more and more using regional food to attract new markets. After a period where the world system was the engine of fast food diffusion, ethnic and regional food is back. In countries where people are...

Events such as plant creation, closure, and relocation have a considerable effect on employment. This paper looks specifically at plant transfers from urban to periurban or rural areas. First we propose an analytic framework derived from New Economic Geography models. The paper then presents a...

This paper puts forward a general methodology to analyze the metropolitan economy. It is inspired by A.J. SCOTT?s works. It is based on the description of the inner urban structures of metropoles. Thus, the inner urban structure analysis is a means of describing the metropolitan economy. From...

Increasingly many initiatives aim at instigating territories starting - district with the country - from the crafts. That it is a question of developing existing know-how or of supporting the installation of new activities, the « pôles métiers d?art » return to generally intuitive and...