The objective of this thesis is the positive and normative analysis of the organization of military research, development and technology, in France, in the present period. The research tackles theoretical and empirical questions related to knowledge economics and the organisation of R&D. It is...

The thesis puts forth an empirical methodology to study the link between modes of knowledge production and innovation, based on a functional (basic research, applied research and development) and organisational (internal research, external research) analysis of RD activities. To do so, it uses...

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk cost industries, due to the high level of investments in R&D and infrastructures. Players in these industries need to coordinate their investments; hence a threat of collusion....

Contributions associant une trentaine d'auteurs d'institutions françaises et étrangères autour du thème de l'innovation. Elles s'articulent autour decinq sujets : Méthode, les leviers du mouvement ;Cultures, de l'idée à l'exécution ; Marchés, nouveaux territoires ; Institutions,...