The collective management of technological platforms is one of the key-issue of life sciences policy in France. Technological platforms have been given two missions by public policies : contributing to knowledge production and realize technological transfer to the industry. The historical and...

The recent development of networks has engendered both the evanescence of “macro-actors” (i.e., big formal organizations) and new problems related to corporate social responsibility. The concept of “organization” must be redefined and analyzed so as to identify network externalities and...