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Pôles de compétitivité: les limites d'une gouvernance locale de l'innovation

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  • Olivier Bouba-Olga

    (CRIEF [Poitiers] - Centre de recherche sur l'intégration économique et financière - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers)

  • Marie Ferru

    (CRIEF [Poitiers] - Centre de recherche sur l'intégration économique et financière - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers)

Abstract

Since July 2005, the French government has implemented an active industrial policy meant to develop competitiveness clusters, in order to support innovative projects and to improve the specialization of the French economy in high-tech activities. This new industrial policy encourages companies, research centers and educational institutions to work together in a given local area. In this article, we show that the scope of this policy suffers from several limits. By focusing only on technological innovations in high tech activities, it underestimates organizational innovations and the role of key institutions (financial system, labor market institutions). Moreover, this policy takes for granted that innovation is a local process, whereas most empirical studies and some of the latest developments in spatial economics show that this process requires interactions between both local and non local actors. Finally, it seems that regional policies should take into account (and to improve) organized proximity rather than geographical proximity in order to sustain the innovation process, knowing that organized proximity is often the result of social, economic and organizational relations that have been built earlier.

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  • Olivier Bouba-Olga & Marie Ferru, 2008. "Pôles de compétitivité: les limites d'une gouvernance locale de l'innovation," Post-Print hal-00460381, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00460381
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    1. Rachel Levy & Pierre Triboulet & Brice Navereau, 2020. "Trajectories of innovative collaborative project in agrofood industry [La trajectoire de projets collaboratifs innovants dans le secteur agro-alimentaire]," Post-Print hal-03215014, HAL.
    2. Anne Albert-Cromarias & Alexandre Asselineau, 2017. "Compétences territoriales et cycle de vie du territoire, socles de la réindustrialisation," Post-Print hal-02366207, HAL.

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