Marseilles industry tends currently to organize at the level of her metropolitan area. But it hasn?t always been the fact. Industry has been organized firstly around the harbour and the activities related to overseas and more particularly to the French colonial empire. There was no hinterland...

[fre] Entre les anciens complexes de construction et de réparation navales provençaux, aujourd'hui condamnés ou en régression, et les nouvelles activités de productique océanique désormais dotées d'une grande mobilité stratégique, il y a des différences radicales aussi bien du point...

This paper aims to show that the concept of social innovation cannot be reduced to a simple transposition in the « social » field of the innovation concept developed by the economic theory. It differs in two respects. First, because the concept of social innovation, in counterpart to the...

This paper presents the results of research into the processes of transition that have been at work over the past 25 years in two French clusters in the South East region. In these areas, the emergence and development of long term economic activity was rooted in the presence of abundant physical...

The story of orange fresh fruit from over-station in Uruguay and Argentina is strongly linked to the story of migration of this region of the world. Each wave of migration bringed a know-how, a technicity contributed at the creation of one product : the fresh orange over-station. We will follow...

Des appareillages électriques, en passant par les bilans comptables jusqu'aux technologies de l'information et de la communication, rares sont les secteurs économiques qui ne soient pas soumis à des normes dites techniques. Les normes techniques, dont les normes ISO sont certainement les plus...