Most scientific institutions acknowledge the importance of opening the so-called ‘ivory tower’ of academic research through popularization, industrial collaboration or teaching. However, little is known about the actual openness of scientific institutions and how their proclaimed priorities...

In this paper, we present an original experience led by professional organizations to encourage SMEs of the agro-food industry to adopt good practices of sustainable development. The collective construction and the diffusion of a guide of good practices of sustainable development are considered...

If small companies currently seem less sensitive than the large ones to the stakes of sustainable development, they could however, taking into account their number, be an important vector of expansion of the practices, in particular in the environmental field. More and more tools and specific...

The relationship between innovation and CSR has so far resulted in studies that 1) mainly analyze the integration of CSR into the business as a generator of innovations and thus of economic performance, or 2) focus on the strategic dimensions of environmental innovation. Few publications examine...

Innovation is a widely used concept, yet poorly defined, despite the attempts to formalize it. The Oslo Manual is held up as the reference on the subject, and most surveys about business innovation are developed from the definitions proposed in this report. Innovation is, therefore, analyzed...

Centrée sur le comportement des entreprises, cette analyse s’inscrit dans le prolongement des travaux réalisés sur les liens entre qualité, innovation et territoire. Elle met en avant le lien observé entre la mise en place de démarches de qualification et le comportement d’innovation...