After a long period of disregard and underestimation, the issue of innovation in services is now being taken seriously in economic theory, as well as in public policy. This is not yet the case for innovation in public services. The objective of this paper is to propose a reinterpretation of the...

Gabriel Tarde was a French sociologist and criminologist whose work is rediscovered from time to time. Economists of innovation have paid insufficient attention to an author who devoted a large part of his work to the laws of imitation and invention. The purpose of this paper is threefold. The...

The goal of this paper is to (re)assess the relationship between knowledge intensive busi- ness services (KIBS) and the economic growth. Taking into account various conflicting relationships between KIBS and growth, we build a multi agent-based system involving industrial firms,...

Après une longue phase de méconnaissance et de sous-estimation, la question de l'innovation dans les services est désormais prise au sérieux dans la théorie économique, comme dans les politiques publiques. Tel n'est pas encore toujours le cas de l'innovation dans les services publics....

Ce travail est consacré à l'analyse de la relation innovation-performance dans les économies développées contemporaines. Il met en évidence un double " gap " relatif à l'innovation et à la performance. L'" innovation gap " traduit la différence entre la réalité de l'innovation...

The concept of productivity is at the heart of economic theory, management science and operational management of firms and organizations. Despite the theoretical and operational importance of this concept, in recent years, its absolutism has been challenged. Services are often at the heart of...

Le concept de réseau d'innovation est un concept bien établi qui a fait l'objet d'une abondante littérature théorique et empirique. Nous nous intéressons dans ce travail à des réseaux d'innovations particuliers, encore peu connus, mais qui se développent dans une économie de service...