The aim of this paper is to structure, from a historical and spatial point of view, the existing specialists' concerns in developing theories about agglomeration. The complete and complex evaluation of agglomeration economies allows us to make important contributions to assessing the relative...

The paper describes fifty years of research activities in regional science of the Southwestern Regional Economics Institute (IERSO, Bordeaux University), first regional economics institute founded in France by Joseph LAJUGIE in 1951. Section 1 underlines the specificities of the approach in...

Consumer trips and money flows in the Paris Region. Transfers of wealth are increasingly shown as a key component of the community economic development. It is well-known that commuters contribute to moving wealth from their workplaces to the residential areas where they live. Moreover a second...

This article is extracted from a study about the existence of Innovative Environments (IE) in the Sporting Goods Industry (SGI) in the Rhône-Alpes region. On the one hand the purpose of this work is to highlight the downright practical function of the concept of IE within the field of...

Regional science is in constant change, always in search of identity and specificity like an autonomous and legitimate scientific field. Regional Science was on the last twenty years, deeply renewed under the influence of new theories of which the NEG, of different issues and by the arrival of...

The articles included in this collection have originated from a workshop held in Annecy (France) in 2006 to discuss recent developments in the study of territorial dynamics. This special issue does not offer a comprehensive coverage of all the issues of territorial dynamics but the selected...

The article reflects on the right territorial unit to analyse innovation processes, proposing a multilevel approach and taking a step towards developing it in the Basque Country. From an empirical point of view, it contributes to the relatively scarce literature on the study of the...

The article reflects on the right territorial unit to analyse innovation processes, proposing a multilevel approach and taking a step towards developing it in the Basque Country. From an empirical point of view, it contributes to the relatively scarce literature on the study of the...

Scientific geography is one of the great traditions of contemporary geography. The scientific approach in geography, as elsewhere, invovles the precise definition of variables and theoretical relationships that can be shown to be logically consistent. the theories are judged on the clarity of...