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...

Au sein d’un écosystème, plusieurs entreprises peuvent endosser le rôle de firme pivot. Cette recherche propose une grille de lecture permettant d’identifier qui et quelles caractéristiques permettent à une firme pivot de se positionner dans le rôle de leader dans les différentes...

The Europe 2020 Strategy has been built on three pillars: smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The aim of the paper is to provide, thanks to Dynamic Panel data models, an econometric analysis of the potential cumulative circle among the abovementioned three pillars, with a specific focus on...

Les études qui se sont intéressées aux performances du secteur du capital-investissement européen montrent toutes que ces dernières sont nettement inférieures à celles enregistrées par leurs homologues anglo-saxons. On a recherché pendant longtemps à identifier les déterminants de...

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...

We analyze the impact of venture capital on firm performance; more precisely, we investigate whether venture capital adds value to innovative French companies in terms of increasing their survival time. To this end, we use a hand-collected data set based on a sample of 139 French companies that...