This article brings to light the main plurality of the interest and power conflicts which can burst out among public and private actors involved in a local development plan. Local coordinations indeed depend on the nature of the conflicts in stake, on their neither more nor less diffused...

The aim of this paper is to test, thanks to knowledge production function, the spatial dimension of spillovers inside public networks. Spillovers from public research are seen as less submitted to spatial constraint than private spillovers. This paper studies if geographic proximity is a...

This paper reports upon ESRC-funded findings on regional innovation and knowledge spillovers arising from a research spotlighting UK ICT and biotechnology firms. It appraises the basic question as to whether UK firms in clusters perform better on growth and innovation indicators than similar...

L?objectif de cet article est d?étudier, sur la période 1980 à 1992, les effets qu?ont eu les spillovers des connaissances technologiques, à différents niveaux territoriaux (local, national et international), sur la dynamique de la productivité du travail dans les industries...