Today many contributions are dedicated to the role of industrial districts, clusters and other such networks in local economic development, or to local innovation dynamics (innovative milieus, technopoles, regional innovation systems, learning regions and so on). In our opinion, the crucial...

This compact and authoritative book brings together the topical themes of networks and governance to advance understanding of the determinants of local economic development in the context of increasingly global relationships.

If the spatial dimension of innovation dynamics is analysed for a long time in Regional Economy, all these researches are focused on knowledge diffusion, more precisely on accessibility and appropriation conditions of knowledge. The main idea presented in this article is that although knowledge...

Si la spatialisation des dynamiques d’innovation est étudiée depuis longtemps par l’économie régionale, l’axe central de ces recherches concerne la diffusion des connaissances, i.e. les conditions d’accessibilité et d’appropriation aux connaissances. L’idée principale...