Revisiter l'analyse sociétale, vingt ans après, permet d'ouvrir une discussion critique à propos des fondements théoriques et méthodologiques de cette approche qui pour beaucoup est identifiée à "la recherche France/Allemagne du LEST" de la fin des années 70 (ce qui n'invalide pas pour...

L'objectif de ce travail de recherche était de mettre en lumière les conditions de mise en œuvre et les bénéfices attendus de quatre pôles de compétitivité de la région PACA (Solutions communicantes sécurisées ; Mer, sécurité et sûreté, Développement durable ; Fruits et légumes...

Favoured by genetic engineering breakthroughs, a new type of firm has emerged in the pharmaceutical industry. New Biotechnology Firms (NBFs) are ‘bridging institutions', accelerating the commercialisation of science from academia to the pharmaceutical market and facilitating technological...

Synthèse du "French Call Centre Industry Report 2004"

This article aims to question the conditions of academic spin-offs companies emerging from the French public research. We attempt to assess to what extent the creation of high tech companies in connection with academic research depends on three following factors: institutional effect associated...

This article compares the clustering-process bifurcation of two bio-parks, the first one localized in Kobe in Japan, the second one in Evry in France. It attempts to explore, in an empirical way, the contributions and the limits of a study based on information related to the role of...

The analysis of women labour supply in France and Japan is conducted over the period 1992-2007 from comparable employment surveys. Labour supply of Japanese women is more dependent on the spouse?s employment and income situation than those of French women although this dependency tends to weaken...

In spite of many handicaps due to its "structural" crisis in the nineties (1993-2003), the Japanese capitalism continue to move towards its profound mutation. This text aims at describing some signs of its renewal, that is, emerging new actors and their new behaviours, new practices and new rule...

The aim of this paper is twofold: firstly to highlight how the current “hybridisation” of the academic and industrial rationales exerts its influence over the new production of young scientists; secondly to compare, between five OECD countries (USA, France, Great Britain, Japan and Germany),...

French hardware manufacturers were by and large incapable not only of translating technological advances into industrial products but even of understanding the new opportunities these advances offered. While true up to a point, this approach, focused on the failure of the so-called ''national...