Innovation in Clusters: Science-Industry Relationships in the Face of Forced Advancement

Innovation in Clusters: Science-Industry Relationships in the Face of Forced Advancement

By Estelle Vallier
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Forged at the heart of international political bodies by expert researchers, the innovation cluster concept has been incorporated into most public policies in industrialized countries. Based largely on the ideas behind the success of Silicon Valley, several imitative attempts have been made to geographically group laboratories, companies and training in particular fields in order to generate "synergies" between science and industry.
In its first part, Innovation in Clusters analyzes the infatuation with the system of clusters that is integral to innovative policies by analyzing its socio historical context, its revival in management and its worldwide expansion, looking at a French example at a local level. In its second part, the book explores a specialized biotechnology cluster dating back to the end of the 1990s. The sociological survey conducted twenty years later sheds a different light on the dynamics and relationships between laboratories and companies, contradicting the commonly held belief that innovation is made possible by geographical proximity.

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Publish date December 29, 2021
Publisher Wiley-Iste
Format Hardcover
Pages 256
ISBN 9781786306258
1786306255

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