R&D collaboration between firms and public research organizations (PROs) is considered a key component of national systems of innovation. A direct benefit from these collaborations is the production of new scientific and technological knowledge, which is disseminated essentially through...

This paper examines scientific collaboration between French public research teams and distant partners. We first analyse the role and the development of trust and then, the relation between the degree of sophistication of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the constraint of...

This paper uses a survey of 130 public laboratories in France to investigate collaborative activities of laboratories with industry. Our statistical analysis shows that knowledge and technology development and transfer occurs most frequently through collaborative and contract research, informal...

Le réseau représente une forme d’organisation qui suppose la double représentation par des flux d’informations parallèles à des flux de relations (Pesqueux, 2002). Les réseaux d’entreprises, en particulier, sont caractérisés par l’utilisation de systèmes d’information...

In a supply chain designed for the production of goods of wide variety, the production schedule creates an ordered list of all the alternate components that will be mounted on a same post of the chain. The supply of these components by the supplier may induce transportation-related constraints....

L'externalisation croissante des activités stratégiques des entreprises pose le problème de la gouvernance des relations client-fournisseur. L'article présente les résultats d'une recherche sur le sujet à partir de six études de cas d'entreprises industrielles. Quatre configurations de...

The synchronization of the production of a manufacturing supplier, who makes alternate components assembled on his industrial customer’s work station with this client’s production specialized in mass production of highly diversified products, must take into account the improvement of their...

Dans ce papier, nous chercherons à comprendre, au-delà de ses fonctions techniques, comment les procédures d’investissement permettent d’institutionnaliser les grands idéaux et discours ayant trait à l’investissement. En analysant, dans le contexte français, les procédures...