This Handbook brings together 49 international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world’s post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services.

Much hope has been laid in local services as a potential source of job creation and as a possible means of reintegration for those who have been excluded from the labour market. The relatively numerous experiments that have been developed in France, especially at a local level and with the...

[eng] Attention has been drawn on the continuous development of services and industrial services in particular. Various theoretical problems are raised. Showing the necessity not to conceive the whole of industrial services as a homogenous unity, i.e. following the same logic. The article...