[eng] This article proposes an overview of the industrial configurations as well as firms'strategy among the companies producing and/or selling industrial lasers. The international competition in this field is caracterized by the U.S. leadership and by original efforts of R&D in Japan. Three «...

[fre] Le taux de rendement des dépenses de recherche est très variable d'un projet à l'autre. Pour des projets de recherche complexe (Espace, physique des hautes énergies), l'évaluation de ce taux de rendement paraît être une gageure.. L'article présente la problématique et les...

Setting up long term relationships between large multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and African Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) is one of the most powerful ways to progressively integrate local firms into global value chains nowadays. The aim of our communication is : first to define...

In den letzten Jahren wurden Regionen, verstanden als räumliche Einheiten unterschiedlicher Größen innerhalb eines Landes, durch das Aufgreifen regionaler Entwicklungskonzepte, die Thematisierung von Innovationsnetzwerken sowie durch die Popularisierung des Cluster-Ansatzes zunehmend...

[Summary and Discussion] In summary, our findings suggest that the current efforts towards fulfilling the RIS3 ex-ante conditionalities are neither likely to trigger an immediate revolution in European regions' approaches towards innovation policy nor will they put an immediate or even rapid end...

Characterizing the innovative capacity of a territory, and his specific attractivity for external direct investment in new fields, needs the definition of measurable concepts and the design of a proper methodology to gather relevant quantitative data. The aim of the paper is to propose a general...

The undeniable importance of knowledge and innovation in modern economies justifies the increasing interest that scholars are taking in studying knowledge-intensive busi-ness services (KIBS). Since the mid 1990s, there has been a significant increase in the attention paid to KIBS and their role...