[fre] Cet article porte sur la capacité des consortiums de haute technologie à apporter des solutions aux problèmes d’allocation de ressources dans le domaine de l’économie de la recherche et de la production de connaissances. Le cadre théorique est construit sur la base d’une...

This paper builds on the economic fundamentals of smart specialization. It starts explaining a coherent vision of the goals of this policy approach and then, explores the requirements and implications that are consistent with giving an operational content to this conceptualization. The smart...

The objective of this thesis is the positive and normative analysis of the organization of military research, development and technology, in France, in the present period. The research tackles theoretical and empirical questions related to knowledge economics and the organisation of R&D. It is...

The paper addresses two issues. One concerns the general conditions and procedures involved in the emergence of a tool industry. Tool industries emerge and evolve as a collection of capital goods and tool inventors and manufacturers. One of our goals is to use some of the works on historical...

This paper analyses business-driven innovation in education by looking at education-related patents. It first draws a picture of the challenges for innovation in the formal education sector, which suffers from a poor knowledge ecology: science is hardly linked to core teaching and administrative...

What is the place of the luxury industry in the knowledge economy and what is its contribution to the European growth strategy based on innovation and knowledge (Europe 2020)? A major problem faced by most European countries lies in their inability to create favourable conditions for the...

This paper reflects on the relevance of "systems-theoretic" approaches to the interdependent policy issues relating to the dynamics of science, technology and innovation and their relationship to economic growth. Considering the approach that characterizes much of the current economics...