This article proposes a theoretical reading of the competitiveness poles. After bringing back to mind their main features, the author makes the hypothesis of a producing city that has become a major actor of globalization and that participates in the assumed depletion of the fordist model. The...

This article attempts to evaluate two contradictory positions vis-?-vis the notion of territory and the territorialization as a process. In a first time, geographers have taken the concept for a long time and questioned the validity of terms and their relevance today. As if the land, used too,...

The paper demonstrates how the principle of local development may interact in low developed countries and more particularly in Western Africa. A first part describes both the elusion of the state, especially in low developed countries, and the spatial dispersal of social and economic forces....

Cet article présente un bilan scientifique de dix années de recherches sur le modèle du panier de biens. Il tente d'évaluer le caractère général des liens mis en évidence entre produits et services de qualité, environnement et territoires comme sources d'externalités positives...

Today many contributions are dedicated to the role of industrial districts, clusters and other such networks in local economic development, or to local innovation dynamics (innovative milieus, technopoles, regional innovation systems, learning regions and so on). In our opinion, the crucial...

Cet article fait l'hypothèse qu'il existe une dynamique de construction territoriale par les acteurs, reposant sur la mobilisation des ressources patrimoniales. Cette mobilisation produit une offre composite propre au site selon un modèle dit du "panier de biens et services territorialisés"....