This article enlightens the role of communities of practice in the dynamics of territorial governance. It proposes a renewed understanding in terms of embeddeness ? decoupling processes. Our analysis of micro-social relations in the angevine ornamental horticulture cluster underlines that...

While the issue of cluster dynamics has been poorly addressed in the literature, they actually display different levels of adaptability to change and different levels of collaboration. This contribution aims to address this theoretical issue through recourse to the literature on proximity. We...

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

<!--Début du contenu @xml:lang="en"--> ?The French « Pôles de compétitivité » policy notably entails the financing of collaborative projects. This gives rise to a particular approach to open innovation that mainly relies on the co-constructing and the sharing of a resource common to stakeholders. This may entail a questioning...

The ‘knowledge economy’ is a concept commonly deemed too ambiguous and elusive to hold any significance in current economic debate. This valuable book seeks to refute that myth. Presenting an important collection of views, from a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume...

The aim of this article is to propose a theoretical framework describing the internal organization of communities of practice in a dynamic perspective. More precisely, we argue that communities of practice adopt some specific patterns of internal organization where some of their members obtain a...

[eng] The aim of this contribution is to exhibit some of the mechanisms underlying the internal coordination of knowledge intensive communities. By basing our discussion on the example of open source software development, it will be shown that two complementary mechanisms are at work : social...