Following the rise of climate and environmental challenges during the last decade or so, the growing awareness among various actors of sustainability issues at the local and global levels has resulted in a change in public policies as in industrial and financial strategic moves. This change has...

The economic analysis of the links between institutions and development is crucial with regard to the socio-economic and human challenges linked to the health situation and the conditions of the access to health services in developing countries. This paper tries to put emphasis on the major role...

Regions tend to become the relevant space for the analysis of public funding of innovation, as emphasised by numerous recent works. However, it is still to be demonstrated that the regional level is really the right spatial scaling for implementing innovation public policies. The aim of this...

In order to explain why innovation activities are increasingly structuring through networking and agglomeration dynamics, numerous empirical and theoretical works in various disciplines (economics, geography, sociology, management) have stressed the crucial role of spatial proximity. Following...

Despite the late awareness and rather still limited commitments of public and private actors towards a better protection of the environment and a more sustainable development, we have observed in recent years the emergence and a progressive development of various environmental friendly new...

In recent years, many countries have engaged in decentralisation/regionalisation policies of their administrative and political structures as well as their economic and social actions. This evolution tends to redefine the space and the modes of interaction among the institutions in charge of...

A very important stream of theoretical and empirical research has marked the literature on Territorial Innovation Systems (TIS) over the last twenty years. One key achievement of this research effort is the emphasis put on the structuring role of territorial dynamics in the deployment and...

Based on the case of the biopharmaceutical industry, the aim of this paper is to challenge the core conviction now widespread within the “spatial clustering theory”, which devotes a key (if not exclusive) role to geographical proximity in explaining clustering dynamics of innovation...

Pour de nombreux secteurs d'activites marques par des changements technologiques rapides et profonds, par un renouvellement radical des connaissances et des competences et par une ouverture rapide et globale des marches se pose le probleme de la pertinence des dispositifs legislatifs,...