[fre] L'importance et la nature de l'investissement direct international rendent de plus en plus difficile l'analyse des spécialisations industrielles à partir des seules spécialisations internationales à l'échange, et autorisent une nouvelle approche. En effet au sein des groupes...

This paper is focused on the local development problematic, not analyzed according to an endogenous view but, on the contrary, according to a territory conception opened to its institutional and economic environment (nationally, international). Such a conception involves thinking and clearing...

The paper compares the research agendas of two different approaches of a meso-analysis which could combine industrial and spatial dynamics: the economics of proximity approach on one side, the regulation theory on the other side. Their specificities and divergences are identified in the first...

The economic literature dealing with the relationship between different levels of public authorities, uses a design of the institutional innovation traditionally limited to the capacity of the agents to improve incomplete contracts in case of their failure. Thus, it pains to account for the...