Innovation and Production Ecosystems


Volume 2 – Innovation between Risk and Reward SET Coordinated by Bernard Guilhon and Sandra Montchaud

Innovation and Production Ecosystems

Bernard Guilhon, SKEMA Business School, France


ISBN : 9781786300683

Publication Date : September 2017

Hardcover 164 pp

105 USD

Co-publisher

Description


“We do not know where Silicon Valley is really located”, Feldman writes, because these types of organization, when they are dynamic, are moving and fluid.
Innovation and production ecosystems or clusters are proliferating today because they seem to be adapted to the demands of innovation, growth and employment. The process leading to their institutionalization escapes a summary analysis of the behavior triggered by monetary incentives or, at the very least, makes it richer. The relational aspect becomes predominant, the interactions between the participants testify to the difficulty of separating the geographical and social dimensions.

In the most prominent American clusters, public/private linkages and the building of social links express the centrality of networks in the innovation process. The European vision seeks to articulate entrepreneurial discoveries with vertical public interventions. The competitiveness poles in France suffer from the fact that public choices seem to be torn between two contradictory objectives: efficiency and equity.

Contents


1. The Process of Institutionalization of Innovation and Production Ecosystems.
2. The Problems Raised by the Analysis of Innovation and Production Ecosystems.
3. American Innovation and Production Ecosystems.
4. Competitiveness Poles.
5. European Innovation and Production Ecosystems.

About the authors/editors


Bernard Guilhon is Professor Emeritus of the University of Aix-Marseille in France. He has written numerous books on the knowledge and innovation economy and published numerous articles on the subject. He is currently a professor at SKEMA Business School in France.