In a recent literature, the structural properties of knowledge networks have been pointed out as a critical factor for cluster structural changes and long run dynamics. Mixing evolutionary economic geography and network-based approach of clusters, this contribution aims at capturing and...

A third‐place (Oldenburg, 1991) is a place, most of time urban place, which is not exactly neither an office nor a home. This place is mainly dedicated to individual social capital building and relational asset production. Bars, cafe, airport or any public or private places with WiFI hot spot...

The paper develops an evolutionary framework of regional resilience with a primary focus on the structural properties of local knowledge networks. After a presentation of the network-based rationales of growth and structuring of clusters, we analyze under which structural conditions a regional...

Illegal digital file consumption is widely believed to influence sales of cultural goods. Online piracy is now  regulated  and  prohibited  in  some  countries,  especially  in  France,  where  HADOPI  is  a  legal  authority in charge of Peer-­‐to-­‐Peer (P2P) protocol...

After an abundant literature on the crucial role of cluster development for innovation and growth in knowledge-based economies, cluster policies have been recently and increasingly called into question in the aftermath of several empirical evidences. Our aim is to show that, in spite of this...

The concentration and dispersion of innovative activities in space have been largely explained and evidenced by the nature of knowledge and the geographical extent of knowledge spillovers. One of the empirical challenges is to go beyond this by understanding how the geography of innovation is...

[fre] Quels sont les facteurs qui favorisent ou au contraire freinent l ’ usage de l ’ Internet à domicile ? Afin de répondre à cette question , les enquêtes se sont multipliées ces dernières années . Dans cette lignée , cet article propose une modélisation économétrique des choix...

[eng] Until now, the political discourse on the digital divide implied a spatial dimension. The main issue was the difference between people who “ have ” ICT access and those who “ do not.” Henceforth, it is important to distinguish between ICT adoption and ICT usage. The “ first-level...