This paper tries to identify French for-profit public services’ sustainable business strategies which could lead to a "global" responsibility (i.e. an economical, social and environmental responsibility). These organizations have always managed contradictory aims between their public missions...

In recent years, many countries have engaged in decentralisation/regionalisation policies of their administrative and political structures as well as their economic and social actions. This evolution tends to redefine the space and the modes of interaction among the institutions in charge of...

A very important stream of theoretical and empirical research has marked the literature on Territorial Innovation Systems (TIS) over the last twenty years. One key achievement of this research effort is the emphasis put on the structuring role of territorial dynamics in the deployment and...

Based on the case of the biopharmaceutical industry, the aim of this paper is to challenge the core conviction now widespread within the “spatial clustering theory”, which devotes a key (if not exclusive) role to geographical proximity in explaining clustering dynamics of innovation...

Pour de nombreux secteurs d'activites marques par des changements technologiques rapides et profonds, par un renouvellement radical des connaissances et des competences et par une ouverture rapide et globale des marches se pose le probleme de la pertinence des dispositifs legislatifs,...

The aim of this article is to attempt to give an account of the diversity of the contemporary configurations of inter-firm relations as they can be observed in many industries, and to stress the structuring role of cooperative arrangements within these configurations. The paper is divided in...

This paper sketches a co-evolutionary model of the change dynamics characterizing industries submitted to radical transformation of their technological-institutional-economic structures. These structural changes take place within a rather long-term dynamics of innovation whose trajectory and...

This paper sketches a co-evolutionary model of the change dynamics characterizing industries submitted to radical transformation of their technological-institutional-economic structures. These structural changes take place within a (rather long-term) dynamics of innovation whose trajectory and...