IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/inrsre/v23y2000i1p66-80.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Regional Conversion Under Conditions of Defense Industry Centralization: The French Case

Author

Listed:
  • Roland de Penanros

    (E3D-CEDEM, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, Roland.dePenanros@univ-brest.fr)

  • Claude Serfati

    (C3ed, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Guyancourt, France, Claude.Serfati@c3ed.uvsq.fr)

Abstract

French defense-industrial and defense-technological policies have been important factors in regional economic development. The process of downward adjustment begun in the late 1990s will have major effects on defense-dependent regions. However, conversion has only been given a minor role. The study of two quite different defense-dependent regions, Brittany and Paris, indicates that the strong, vested idiosyncratic interests of large sections of the defense industry, combined with an overly high concentration of political, economic, and social activities at the national level, are the major obstacles to a significant regional conversion policy.

Suggested Citation

  • Roland de Penanros & Claude Serfati, 2000. "Regional Conversion Under Conditions of Defense Industry Centralization: The French Case," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 23(1), pages 66-80, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:inrsre:v:23:y:2000:i:1:p:66-80
    DOI: 10.1177/016001700761012585
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/016001700761012585
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/016001700761012585?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Sternberg, Rolf G., 1996. "Government R & D expenditure and space: empirical evidence from five industrialized countries," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 25(5), pages 741-758, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Josselin Droff & Alfredo R. Paloyo, 2015. "Assessing The Regional Economic Impacts Of Defense Activities: A Survey Of Methods," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(2), pages 375-402, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Matthias Firgo & Peter Mayerhofer, 2015. "Wissensintensive Unternehmensdienste, Wissens-Spillovers und regionales Wachstum. Teilprojekt 1: Wissens-Spillovers und regionale Entwicklung – Welche strukturpolitische Ausrichtung optimiert das Wach," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 58342.
    2. Rolf Sternberg & Matthias Kiese & Dennis Stockinger, 2010. "Cluster Policies in the US and Germany: Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on Two High-Tech States," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 28(6), pages 1063-1082, December.
    3. Iammarino, Simona & McCann, Philip, 2006. "The structure and evolution of industrial clusters: Transactions, technology and knowledge spillovers," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(7), pages 1018-1036, September.
    4. Dohse, Dirk, 2002. "The changing role of the regions in German technology policy," ERSA conference papers ersa02p023, European Regional Science Association.
    5. Buesa, Mikel & Heijs, Joost & Baumert, Thomas, 2010. "The determinants of regional innovation in Europe: A combined factorial and regression knowledge production function approach," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(6), pages 722-735, July.
    6. Matthias Firgo & Peter Mayerhofer, 2015. "Wissens-Spillovers und regionale Entwicklung - welche strukturpolitische Ausrichtung optimiert des Wachstum?," Working Paper Reihe der AK Wien - Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 144, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik.
    7. Les Oxley & Shangqin Hong & Philip McCann, 2013. "Why Size Maters: Investigating the Drivers of Innovation and Economic Performance in New Zealand using the Business Operation Survey," Working Papers in Economics 13/13, University of Waikato.
    8. Laranja, Manuel & Uyarra, Elvira & Flanagan, Kieron, 2008. "Policies for science, technology and innovation: Translating rationales into regional policies in a multi-level setting," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(5), pages 823-835, June.
    9. Cocchi, Andrea, 2011. "Business models as systemic instruments for the evolution of traditional districts?," MPRA Paper 33766, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:inrsre:v:23:y:2000:i:1:p:66-80. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.