After a long period of building, the microelectronics cluster in the Marseilles Metropolitan Area appears to have reached a critical size and investment dynamics capable to ensure its durability. In this paper we aim to enlighten such an assumption by analysing the nature of the process that led...

During the recent years, clusters have been at the heart of a vast literature supposed to bring new arguments and perspectives to local development preoccupations. Two complementary factors are stressing for firms and territories the importance of governing the interactions of industrial actors:...

[fre] Nous déterminons les enjeux économiques posés par tout exercice de calcul économique sur un projet d’infrastructures publiques et montrons les difficultés d’estimation des coûts et des bénéfices. Nous nous penchons aussi sur l’influence du niveau décisionnel (centralisé,...