Les économistes démontrent que la sortie de crise en France et dans le monde ne peut passer que par une politique d'innovation technique tournée vers une amélioration de la productivité mais aussi une meilleure exploitation des ressources disponibles et un respect accru de l'environnement.

Alliances et imitations sont souvent étudiées à travers le prisme de la quête individuelle de compétitivité. Cette recherche propose d’aborder ces stratégies sous un angle collectif et d’étudier leur impact sur la dynamique d’une industrie. Comment se déroule la transition d’une...

The proliferation of articles in the press, the media, and on the Internet demonstrate a real interest in the Web 2.0 phenomenon. The concept can be seen as a new step in the development of the Internet network as evidenced by its “2.0” label, in opposition to Web 1.0. All the same, it is...

This study examines the relationship between the status and seniority of product champions, their cultural context and the ability of product champions to enlist top management support for an innovation project. Based on a sample of 82 French and 101 German champions, this work suggests that the...

Alors que les sociétés contemporaines subissent les effets des crises financières, économiques et sociales, se pose plus que jamais en entreprise la question de la responsabilité du management et de sa capacité à assurer les conditions d’un travail digne et satisfaisant pour...

This article addresses theoretically the dynamics of innovation and growth paths in an economy producing “standard goods” and emerging “new goods”. We model consumers’ preferences for both types of goods as well as producers’ behaviours in relation with consumers’ decisions. In...

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a exible one (law set after observing current technology). The exible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate...

This work studies the seniority and the hierarchical level of product champions. The hierarchical level is positively correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most innovative projects. The seniority of champions...