The methodology developed by the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) for the economic evaluation of the indirect effects of large public R&D programmes is described, with special reference to space projects. It is designed to provide a minimal estimation, with the use of direct...

<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"--> ?This article aims at analysing the mechanisms by which a large Research Infrastructure, here a synchrotron, co-constructs the ecosystem to which it belongs and uses it in order to sustain and feed its own evolution dynamics. Our analysis relies on the study of the French synchrotron SOLEIL. We...