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...

French University System has changed a lot during the past decade. On one hand, numerous studies are made at different scales to understand how it is spread in French urban system. On the other hand, fewer are research works about how students migrate from one University City to an other. This...

This article aims at evaluating the link between knowledge properties and geographical proximity in the coordination R&D activities of firms. This evaluation is based on a statistical analysis of 614 responses to a survey carried out in France over 3740 plants having R&D activities. The concepts...

Economic geography and the new urban theories create an original analytical framework in spatial economics in order to study location issues within an environment of increasing returns and imperfect competition. Two research topics are related : the first one wonders when a symmetric...

After a short presentation of the Walloon Area, the rural context of Wallonia is presented. Various territorial development tools are commented on, whether their range is municipal of supar municipal. Relevance on these tools depends on the size of the territory and the political aims. Two...

This paper is based on key-concepts of austrian economics (expectations, knowledge, institutions), and brings a complementary view in the theory of territory. Particularly, it will show that territories, through individual actions which are «located» within them, are private or...