This article proposes to analyze, in the first part, the evolution of economic indicators of the craft sector, in terms of job creation, turnover, and added value. Then, this analysis will make it possible to study the characteristics and evolution of artisanal SMEs before examining the dynamics...

The main assumption of the paper is that the differentials of competitiveness related to ICT are nowadays less dependant on the level of the investments than on the level of their use. ICT are generally studied within the framework of developed economies and less of their impact on developing...

This paper aims to take into account the increasing weight of Eastern Europe in European car production. Through the product life-cycle theory and the Dunning model, recent foreign direct investment and the location of new plants are seen as new steps in enlarging the productive space of...

The determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) of the manufacturing industries, in particular innovation and industrial policy, constituted the seminal contribution of Crépon, Duguet and Mairesse in the late 1990. This study aims to explain the TFP of the 5 branches composing the...

In this paper, we examine the hypothesis of the increasing role of regional level for designing and driving industrial politics in France. We consider the case of aerospace industry and Aquitaine region. We adopt a historical approach, and consider three key periods. The first corresponds to the...

The plane production constraints, and more particularly an international multisite constraints, raise a strong question of productive and cognitive coordination of a complex technical product. This question treates the coordination, the design and the realization of the subsets and the...

After having sought to reduce production costs, economic policies dedicated to SMEs tend to promote cooperation and to become more and more systemic. These sorts of policies refer to different underlying models in which firms and technology play different roles. This paper aims at studying the...

Dans ce papier, nous analysons le système tunisien d’innovation en mobilisant la méthodologie de l’approche en termes de systèmes sociaux d’innovation et de production développée par Amable, Barré et Boyer (1997). Pour ce faire, nous avons présenté dans un premier temps les inputs,...

Mises en place progressivement au cours du XXeme siècle en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Elles ont suivi les avancées scientifiques réalisées à partir des premières recherches en génétique et ont pris leur essor après le développement des outils biologiques et techniques moléculaires...