This paper follows recent research about the importance, the variety and the development of innovation in the service industries. We study the innovations which have appeared in the fast growing activity of mobile telecommunication services in France. These innovations have essentially been...

In recent years, many countries have engaged in decentralisation/regionalisation policies of their administrative and political structures as well as their economic and social actions. This evolution tends to redefine the space and the modes of interaction among the institutions in charge of...

A very important stream of theoretical and empirical research has marked the literature on Territorial Innovation Systems (TIS) over the last twenty years. One key achievement of this research effort is the emphasis put on the structuring role of territorial dynamics in the deployment and...

Based on the case of the biopharmaceutical industry, the aim of this paper is to challenge the core conviction now widespread within the “spatial clustering theory”, which devotes a key (if not exclusive) role to geographical proximity in explaining clustering dynamics of innovation...

The aim of this article is to attempt to give an account of the diversity of the contemporary configurations of inter-firm relations as they can be observed in many industries, and to stress the structuring role of cooperative arrangements within these configurations. The paper is divided in...