A huge range of economic literature is assessing the impact of agglomeration economies and the resulting knowledge externalities on industrial growth but neglects the intermediary link, namely knowledge creation capacity. This paper aims at filling the gap and studies the impact of urbanization...

Using a model similar to the one developed by GLAESER et al. (1992) and HENDERSON et al. (1995), this article aims to explain the growth of regions in Europe by using a set of variables allowing to take into account the industrial structure, the economies of agglomeration and the economic...

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...

We proceed from the hypothesis that organisational factors are more cogent in comparatively peripheral rural areas, away from the more immediate effects of the selective slackening of population and activities, than in other types of area. We propose a framework within which to analyse the...

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...

The paper deals with the trajectory of a big agglomeration of heavy industries (refinery, chemical industry, steel industry) located in the south of France. It points out 1. how this industrial agglomeration on one hand and the area in which it is located on the other hand have been building and...

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...

Dynamism, creativity, involvement are features that are regularly praised by organizations committed to development. Young migrants seem to display many such qualities especially those who return to their home regions. These qualities were shown to be characteristic of return migrants as...

The notions of embeddedness and tacit knowledge are often used in the theories explaining spatial proximity effects in the relations between academic research and firms. Even if the two notions have a close origin (they have been defined by two brothers, Karl and Michael POLANYI), they imply...