Social embeddedness appears to be a promising way to analyze knowledge collaborations, notably to better understand their build up and their spatial patterns. Nevertheless, measurement problems and an over-territorialized conception of the notion exist. When studying the formation of these...

The aim of this article is to broaden the notion of « local productive system » beyond the specific case of "districts" of small firms specialized in traditional products. I use the criterion of the existence of cooperations that coexist with competition relations within a set of firms of a...

In 1993, Revue d?Economie Régionale et Urbaine published a special issue on Proximity Dynamics in which several scholars proposed a first distinctive approach between geographical proximity and organized proximity to provide clearer explanations on the spatial dimension of economic activities....

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...