Regions are exposed to intensive competition to provide the most attractive location conditions for firms and their employees. Therefore, regional employment development depends to a decisive degree on the attractiveness of locations both on the supply and the demand side. This paper gives an...

This article aims to analyse the factors that determine the existence of multi-unit firms and that influence the intensity of their organisational fragmentation. More precisely, we identify the firm’s internal characteristics and their spatial, sectoral and competitive environments that are...

This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm's innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit...

This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm’s innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit...

This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm’s innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit...

This study examines the effects of intra-regional cooperation among firms and institutions on the growth of firms, using the unique data set of questionnaire survey collected in the three major industrial clusters in Japan. In contrast to the existing studies on regional innovations or...

L'existence d'un tissu industriel et technologique en micro-electronique dans les Bouches-du-Rhone est aujourd'hui une indeniable realite, avec 25 a 30 % selin les estimations, de la production francaise dans le filiere du silicium. Ce document examine dans une premiere partie la dynamique...

English economic policy requires different levels of government to pursue incommensurate, urban-centric, objectives. Rural areas are characterised by ‘softer’ development approaches centring on relocalisation. Measuring rural economic performance is obscured by the simultaneous use of two...

Les strategies d'attractivite mises en oeuvre par les territoires pour attirer des investissements productifs en quete de localisation induisent une distinction entre deux types d'investissements selon leur origine, endogene ou non. Toute firme etant nee dans un contexte territorial donne,...

Dans cet article nous developpons une approche des rapports firmes-trritoires en termes de nomadisme des entreprises et d'ancrage territorial des activites technologiques et industrielles. Cette approche s'appuie sur l'idee qu'il est necessaire de depasser le niveau d'analyse de la firme...