Scientists collaborate to acquire new competencies and to access to scientific equipment that they require to perform research. Since the development of genomics and tools for «mass gene and protein exploration», instrumentation has become more and more resource-consuming, making sharing...

Les acteurs, publics comme privés, conçoivent des stratégies de coopération pour développer de nouvelles compétences et avoir accès aux équipements nécessaires à une production scientifique de qualité. On assiste alors à un enchaînement de décisions stratégiques prises par des...

Scientists collaborate to acquire new competencies and to access to scientific equipment that they require to perform research. Since the development of genomics and tools for "mass gene and protein exploration", instrumentation has become more and more resource-consuming, making sharing...

Les acteurs, publics comme privés, conçoivent des stratégies de coopération pour développer de nouvelles compétences et avoir accès aux équipements nécessaires à une production scientifique de qualité. On assiste alors à un enchaînement de décisions stratégiques prises par des...

Les technologies émergentes comme la microélectronique des années 70, les biotechnologies des années 80-90 ou les nanotechnologies des années 2000 s'expriment sous forme de vagues technologiques (Kahane, 2008) qui sont porteuses de promesses scientifiques et techniques (Pautrat, 2002), de...

One of the major challenges confronted by those in charge of technological innovation involves anticipating the value creation model sufficiently early on,in a highly uncertain context both as far as the technology itself is concerned and the potential market. Today, in many industrial sectors,...

By exploring whether nanotechnologies have the potential to generate green innovations, we consider the paradox between the negative and positive side-effects that could come with the development of nanotechnologies. Starting from the conceptual framework of green product innovation, the...

This article compares the clustering-process bifurcation of two bio-parks, the first one localized in Kobe in Japan, the second one in Evry in France. It attempts to explore, in an empirical way, the contributions and the limits of a study based on information related to the role of...

Although principal investigators are key actors in scientific fields, there is little focus on what they actually do in shaping new scientific directions. This paper studies PIs practices to better understand their roles. Our central contribution is to identify the different ways in which PIs...