Les changements de l’environnement économique, social et culturel conduisent les entreprises à innover dans de nombreux domaines notamment dans des secteurs très concurrentiels comme la biotechnologie. Ainsi, la course vers l’innovation amène les entreprises à protéger leur propriété...

The question of financing innovative small business is determinant in the current context. Giving the share that they represent in the market, they contribute to increase productivity of the economy. The problems of financing the SME’s are related to the almost intangible specificity of their...

This paper studies the relationship between the diffusion of innovative procedures for the treatment of heart attack and distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French public hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight...

Faced with the technological changes and with the rise of international competition, the competitiveness of firms is based more and more on innovation. In this context, the new innovating firms are regarded as source of competitive dynamism. However, these firms encounter difficulties to finance...

In attempting to appropriate their innovations, firms can choose from a range of mechanisms, including patents, trade secrets and lead-times. Yet, little is known about how firms choose different appropriability mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to determine how the use of intellectual...

Les changements de l’environnement économique, social et culturel conduisent les entreprises à innover dans de nombreux domaines notamment dans des secteurs très concurrentiels comme la biotechnologie et les laboratoires pharmaceutiques. En effet, la course vers l’innovation amène les...

This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we analyze two innovations that have had different...

De toutes parts se font entendre aujourd’hui de vibrants plaidoyers pour l’innovation et la créativité. Ces pratiques sont présentées, pour l’entreprise, comme des armes de poids dans un monde de plus en plus concurrentiel et, pour l’individu, comme un mode privilégié de...