This study analyses the geographic structure of the relations between the academic laboratories and the firms, using as a basis the contracts between the CNRS laboratories and their industrial partners (firms and some state technological organizations). This analysis makes evident that the...

L'ouvrage traite des relations science-industrie et de leur incription dans un cadre géographique, à partir du cas de la France. Il comprend une analyse historique de la constitution des systèmes scientifiques locaux, une étude statistique de la "carte scientifique" contemporaine, une étude...

Creation of innovative companies is supposed to be one of the driving forces of local innovation systems development, but it has not been often studied from a spatial perspective. Do innovative companies tend to geographically concentrate ? How do founders choose the place where they settle...