This research reunites some fundamental aspects for firms’ competitiveness: innovation, territory and absorptive capacity. The objective of this research consists of studying how the absorptive capacity influences the innovation process, centering on the context of an industrial district,...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the potential use of the cluster model in the context of developing countries. Although we know this is by no means a new issue, we are convinced that some contributions can still be added to the discussion. Particularly, we focus on two questions: the first...

Innovation arises from multilevel interactions. Many factors at various levels of aggregation chip in. Not only individual characteristics, resources and capabilities of firms, but also framework conditions within which they operate matter for their success in the innovation process. Admittedly...

The use of information and communication technologies to develop services for optimizing urban networks (energy, water, transport ...) and develop new services such as urban mobility services is one of the most promising area of territorial innovations. This is the field of smart cities. But...

We analyze the impact of the establishment of a GBP 380 million basic scienti_x000C_fic research facility in the UK on the geographical distribution of related research. We investigate whether the siting of the Diamond Light Source, a 3rd generation synchrotron light source, in Oxfordshire...