This paper aims at showing how the Research and innovation Act of July 1999 modifies (stimulates?) the role of the local governments, this question being declined in several sub-interrogations dealing with the articulation between the legal framework, the local centres of competence and the...

This article explores science/industry relationships with reference to enterprise and laboratory proximity. Data is drawn from an earlier publication by Terry Shinn and Erwan Lamy that focus on categories of entrepreneurial involvement for a small sample of scientist-entrepreneurs. The question...