This paper offers suggestions for rethinking and reanalysing the relation between transport infrastructure and economic development. It shows the diversity of firms? reactions to infrastructure, depending on the mechanisms of coordination at work between actors. Our research aims to show that...

Aims to present some theoretical considerations about the interaction between government regulation and technological innovation, in the specific case of an emerging environmental technology: biodegradable materials in Germany. Shows the important role regulation plays in the innovation process....

This paper explores OUIGO (pronounced ‘we go’), the low-cost high-speed rail (HSR) service launched by the French state-owned railways in April 2013. In this exploration, we (1) compare OUIGO with the traditional French HSR and the low-cost airlines (LCAs), and (2) analyse fares proposed by...

This paper explores OUIGO (pronounced ‘we go’), the low-cost high-speed rail (HSR) service launched by the French state-owned railways in April 2013. In this exploration, we: (1) compare OUIGO with the traditional French HSR and the low-cost airlines (LCAs), and (2) analyse fares proposed by...

The link between TGV service and local economic development is a very controversial subject. A lot of effects are quoted in the literature. But their birth is linked to a lot of different conditions. In this paper, we focus on the city size. Analyzing a TGV service in a territory as service...

Competitiveness cluster policy devotes the advent of the concept of competitiveness of local territories<np pagenum="256"/> in France. The aim of this paper is to think about the limits of such policies which associate competitiveness of firms and of territories in which they are located. On one hand,...

[fre] Cet article s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche finalisée dont l'objectif est d'identifier les déterminants structurels et stratégiques susceptibles d'influer sur les modalités d'industrialisation d'une innovation (les nouveaux matériaux d'emballage biodégradables...