Within the European context, current policies for innovation and competitiveness are often based on the cluster?s principles, as in France for example with the « pôles de compétitivité » policy. Implementing such policies creates new needs for indicators capable to characterize clusters...

Spurred on by the theory of network formation, and by the geography of innovation, traditional analyses on R&D cooperation face a deep renewal. This paper assesses the extent to which these renewals find an empirical validation. Based on the research projects submitted to the 6-super-th...

This paper investigates the effect of inter-firm and intra-firm spillovers on the productivity of firms, using French data. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator (LPI) is used to estimate the productivity and to break it down into several components (e.g. efficiency, biased technical progress,...