Les journées de l'Association française de science économique (Afse) se sont tenues à Sophia Antipolis les 25 et 26 juin 2009. L'objectif de ces journées, organisées par le Groupe de recherche en droit, économie et gestion (Gredeg(1)) en collaboration avec l'Observatoire français des...

Corporate governance has been in the recent years one of the most debated issues in conventional economic approaches. Agency theory combined with financial indicators has particularly contributed to the development of shareholder value as a key concept in companies' governance both at a...

This paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and innovation according to firms’ age by combining insights from the recent strand of contributions analysing CG and innovation with the lifecycle literature. We find a negative relationship between CG and innovation...

In this introduction, we review the arguments that underpin the rationale for the special section, and provide a structured sequence for the contents of the six selected papers that comprise the section.

The paper proposes an original survey on the evolution of the concept of technological knowledge and of its production, as well as of its operational translations in the empirical literature. We move from the former notion of knowledge capital stock, implying a linear approach to the process of...