The paper aims to question the pertinence and the grounds of technological policies at infra national level. The research combines the contribution of knowledge economics to approaches dealing with the location of activities. The first part of the paper looks through the argumentation accounting...

The widespread assumption that mergers are the best way for cooperatives to break free from their ?natural? territorial anchoring. (perceived to be a strong impediment to their global insertion) is questionable. Observation of the recent merging processes of wine-cooperatives shows a more subtle...

[eng] The paper aims to identify the role of the proximity constraint on interfirm R & D cooperations within the pharmaceutical sector. First, it emphasizes on the cognitive and spatial dimensions underlying the innovation process viabilisation. The interaction of these two dimensions drives to...

-->that the projects studied are in fact guided by a complex and variable structure of goals, in which environmental objectives are not always a priority. Our analysis shows that actors combine environmental and techno-economic objectives in some specific compromises.