Machine generated contents note: pt. I PROXIMITY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: MAIN DEBATES AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES -- 1.Proximity and endogenous regional development / Robert J. Stimson -- 2.Proximity relations at the heart of territorial development processes: from clusters, spatial conflicts...

Proximity analyses have nowadays turned out to be a part of the toolbox of regional scientists and this notion recently became very popular in the position of politics, and private or public stakeholders. In parallel, the notion of proximity spread in the academic literature and is now commonly...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on territorial development and rural development issues, and to review the links and differences between. Indeed, everything points to reach those dimensions that have long seemed disconnected. On the one hand, rural policies incorporate explicitly the...

'Proximity is a concept increasingly used in the international literature on clusters, knowledge transfers and innovation, as well as in the policies that support these processes. In Regional Development and Proximity Relations, André Torre and Frédéric Wallet have collected contributions...