Abstract
Regional clusters and local organisation of the industry have been proved to be basic elements of economic growth and innovation. The understanding of the processes underlying local development is thus pivotal. The paper attempts to contribute to this aim through the analysis of Toulouse, in the French southwest region Midi-Pyrénées, and Sophia Antipolis, in the southeast French Riviera. Both be considered as the outcomes of the French national system of innovation and the process of decentralisation initiated in the late sixties, and are today well known centres of high technology activity. But, as the numerous failed experiences of top-down reinforcement suggest, the factors the two areas have been endowed cannot explain as such the emergence and development of local innovative milieux. Considering clusters as evolving open complex systems, the paper analyses the reconfigurations of the clusters implied by changes in internal and external conditions that have led to endogenous innovative processes characteristic of technopoles.
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Longhi, C. (2002). From Exogenous to Endogenous Local Development: The Cases of the Toulouse and Sophia Antipolis Technopoles. In: Curzio, A.Q., Fortis, M. (eds) Complexity and Industrial Clusters. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50007-7_11
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