This article discusses the case-study of the Quebec?s maritime cluster. It discusses the factors that explain why significant innovation activities in maritime industry did not emerge in what might have been considered at the outset a promising area of growth of this industry and the Quebec...

L'enjeu de cet article est de montrer dans quelle mesure des contextes régionaux différents impliquent des comportements d'innovation différents de la part des services à forte intensité de connaissances SFIC. L'analyse s'appuie sur une comparaison des régions suivantes: le...

The importance of knowledge and innovation in modern economies justifies the in-creasing interest that scholars are taking in studying knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). The objective of this paper is to track the evolution of the key dimen-sions on which scholars have based their...

In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous on such key issues as the territorial dimension of...

The aim of this paper is to verify whether there are idiosyncratic innovation dynamics in the satellite regions. Firstly, we verify if is possible to isolate regional differences between satellite regions with respect to innovation dynamics, and, secondly, we examine if these dynamics are...

A systematic review of academic research and empirical studies on regional innovation systems reveals that the application and elaboration of this concept is fuzzy. The diversity of interpretation of the regional innovation system concept and its implementation as policy tool for economic...

Les systèmes régionaux d'innovation suscitent, depuis plusieurs dernières décennies, un intérêt partagé aussi bien par les chercheurs que par les décideurs politiques. Progressivement se sont élaborés des modèles conceptuels visant à saisir les relations entre le développement d'une...

In recent years, the concept of Regional Innovation Systems has evolved into a widely used analytical framework generating the empirical foundation for innovation policy making. Yet, the approaches utilizing this framework remain ambiguous on such key issues as the territorial dimension of...

This article examines the different forms taken by clusters in the maritime industry and compares six examples : two Canadian (the Québec maritime cluster and St. John?s, Newfoundland), and four European (Copenhagen (Denmark), Turku (Finland), Brest (France) and Tromso (Norway). Relying on...