Research and technology organizations (RTOs) are studied in the innovation policy literature mainly as providers of R&D services and as intermediaries between universities and the private sector. Through the case of the Institut National d'Optique (INO), Canada's leading RTO in the optics and...

Public enterprises are policy instruments that are "rediscovered". In parallel, a separate scientific literature exists on entrepreneurship in the public sector but has not focused on public enterprises. This article suggests that a new perspective linking both streams of research could lead to...