Olivier Crevoisier
Biographic Data
| ID | 788948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivier Crevoisier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivier |
| FAMILY NAME | Crevoisier |
| SIGNATURE | CREVOISIER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Neuchâtel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0807-4015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Beyond the formal–informal divide: Occupational relationships and territorial mobility chains in Vietnam’s labor market
Globalization has not diffused formal employment through the wage relationship. Across the Global South, growth has multiplied informal and hybrid forms of work that sustain accumulation beyond the boundaries of formality. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2021–2023) in Kiên Giang Province, southern Vietnam, this paper introduces two analytical tools – Occupational Relationship (OR) and Territorial Mobility Chain (TMC) – to capture how labour is…
On whose terms: Utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka
Citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) is becoming the dominant paradigm for achieving safe sanitation for all by 2030. Its technical benefits have been explored, but the bargaining over financial and organizational changes CWIS entails have not yet been adequately addressed. Our case study explains the stalled rollout of CWIS in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We analyse policy pathways over the past 30 years through a combined territorial political economy an…
From competitiveness to territorial value: Transformative territorial innovation policies and anchoring milieus
This paper proposes a conceptual reading of the issues and theories that have cumulatively formed the backbone of current ‘innovatized’ territorial development policies. It emphasizes the broadening of a technological innovation perspective to a cultural and, subsequently, social and societal innovation perspective. While this broader perspective encourages systemic changes that are crucial in order to reach global sustainability goals, it tends …
Les activités sexuelles marchandes: Entre Territoire Concret Et Numérisation
Depuis le milieu des années 1990, une nouvelle forme d’activités sexuelles marchandes (ASM) emblématique de la numérisation se développe rapidement : le sexcam (Jones 2020, 2016, 2015 ; Brasseur et Finez, 2020 ; Bleakley 2014). Les formes territoriales de ces activités expliquent leur essor, notamment parce que la numérisation rend possible une nouvelle division spatiale de la production et de la consommation. De plus, le contenu des services pro…
Les transactions économico-sexuelles: Actrices et acteurs, institutions et territoires
Cet article adopte l'hypothèse avancée par Tabet (2004 ; 2001), selon laquelle les transactions sexuelles sont toujours encastrées dans un cadre économique, et cherche à illustrer comment cet encastrement se présente aujourd'hui avec une étude de cas numérique. Les transactions économiques sexuelles (TES) sont abordées dans une perspective institutionnaliste et territoriale, ce qui nous permet de compléter le cadre structuraliste de Tabet et de s…
Anchoring Urban Development: Globalisation, Attractiveness and Complexity
Since the work of Hoyt in the 1930s, economic theories of urban development have stressed the primacy of manufacturing because of the existence of a regional multiplier effect. This model was extended to traded services and, in the last 10 years, to the residential and presential economy, taking into account the fact that mobile consumers and residents also bring monetary flows into regions. The city today is both a productive agglomeration and a…
Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development: Rethinking Innovative Milieus
Introduction: Sustainability, innovative milieus and territorial development
As an introduction to this book, this chapter provides insights on the evolution of innovation patterns, and in particular when dealing with sustainable issues. It highlights the relationship between territory and sustainable innovations and identifies the relationships that such innovations (re)build with territory, as well as the forms of localization that they induce. It presents the four dimensions of sustainable innovation identified in the …
Commentary: From capital landing to urban anchoring: The negotiated city
This commentary article proposes three ideal types of ‘anchoring of finance capital into the city’, i.e. the way in which capital, as it is valued in financial markets, is transformed into real capital and vice versa. Some contexts will allow market finance s visions of the city to become reality without great alteration, and this produces the ‘financialised city’. In this case, the value of the city corresponds to trading on the financial market…
Lost in space: A critical approach to ANT and the social studies of finance
The increasing power of the financial industry in today’s economies has spatial fundamentals and important spatial consequences. This article examines the relevance of the social studies of finance (SSF), largely inspired by actor network theory (ANT) in this respect. Two critiques are made. First, SSF works are limited to the financial sphere and scarcely consider any connection with the rest of the economy. Second, their conception of space rem…
The real estate markets: Players, institutions and territories
Revealing the parties, the processes and the institutions and, consequently, both the diversity and contingency of the real estate markets, the existing increasing literature emphasises the contemporary numerous links and interdependencies between real estate, land value, planning and town planning policy and even the financial system. This paper is an attempt to understand all the real estate markets, from the most peripheral ones, where the urb…
The Economic Value of Knowledge: Embodied in Goods or Embedded in Cultures
Crevoisier O. The economic value of knowledge: embodied in goods or embedded in cultures?, Regional Studies. ‘Tacit’ knowledge is a fuzzy concept – a kind of never opened black box – that has not allowed understanding about how knowledge gives birth to monetary income, or to regional development. This paper proposes a distinction between substantial and significant knowledge. While the former refers to knowledge being sold and bought like a good …
Beyond Economic Base Theory: The Role of the Residential Economy in Attracting Income to Swiss Regions
Segessemann A. and Crevoisier O. Beyond economic base theory: the role of the residential economy in attracting income to Swiss regions, Regional Studies. Regional development theories are mainly focused on export-based activities to explain regional competitiveness. The increasing mobility of workers and residents leads to a reconsideration of this approach. Residential economy has become a strategic issue to generate incomes within regions. Wit…
Sustainability and the Anchoring of Capital: Negotiations Surrounding Two Major Urban Projects in Switzerland
Theurillat T. and Crevoisier O. Sustainability and the anchoring of capital: negotiations surrounding two major urban projects in Switzerland, Regional Studies. This article deals with the anchoring of mobile financial capital in the city and urban sustainability. Illustrated by a case study in the Swiss context, it develops the theory that new forms of negotiation are appearing around urban projects. Development/construction firms are playing a …
The Sustainability of a Financialized Urban Megaproject: The Case of Sihlcity in Zurich
Financialization and sustainable urban planning are now two major components of urban production and landscape change in Western cities. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the intervention of financial actors influences urban sustainability in the building of megaprojects, by developing a conceptual framework for analysis and interpretation. This framework aims first to examine the way in which sustainability has been produced by t…
Beyond Territorial Innovation Models: The Pertinence of the Territorial Approach
Crevoisier O. Beyond territorial innovation models: the pertinence of the territorial approach, Regional Studies . Research on territorial innovation models (TIMs) has had and still has a considerable impact on innovation studies in a broad range of fields (political economy, geography, sociology, administrative and political science, etc.). This paper suggests that a broader approach -- territorial economy -- which became structured to a conside…
La pertinence de l'approche territoriale
Une approche économique qui tient compte de l’espace et du temps apporte un éclairage original sur quantité de questions contemporaines. Les travaux sur les Modèles territoriaux d’innovation (Territorial innovation models - TIMs - MOULAERT et SEKIA, 2003) ont eu des impacts considérables sur les études sur l’innovation dans de très nombreux domaines (économie politique, géographie, sociologie, sciences politiques et administratives, etc.). Dans c…
Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: From the Proximity Paradigm to Multi-location Milieus
This paper addresses the issue of updating a research agenda about territorial innovation models (TIMs) such as innovative milieus, industrial districts, regional innovation systems, etc. The theoretical shift from innovation studies to the knowledge economy is taken into account by the suggested concept of territorial knowledge dynamics (TKDs). Observable major changes within society are also integrated, especially the huge increase in the mobil…
The Expansion of the Finance Industry and Its Impact on the Economy: A Territorial Approach Based on Swiss Pension Funds
A new economic geography of finance is emerging, and the current "financialization" of contemporary economies has contributed greatly to the reshaping of the economic landscape. How can these changes be understood and interpreted, especially from a territorial point of view? There are two contradictory economic theories regarding the tangible effects of the rise of the finance industry. According to neoclassical financial theorists, the finance i…
Cultural Resources and Regional Development: The Case of the Cultural Legacy of Watchmaking
Cultural resources are today the object of considerable attention in regional economics. Ground for new forms of innovation these resources have given rise to numerous works aiming at understanding the emergence and organisation of culture based economic activities and at identifying the role of these activities in regional development and urban planning. The objective of this article is to explore the way in which resources, and in particular cu…
Cultural Resources and Regional Development: The Case of the Cultural Legacy of Watchmaking
Cultural resources are today the object of considerable attention in regional economics. Ground for new forms of innovation these resources have given rise to numerous works aiming at understanding the emergence and organisation of culture based economic activities and at identifying the role of these activities in regional development and urban planning. The objective of this article is to explore the way in which resources, and in particular cu…
Economic theories and spatial transformations clarifying the space-time premises and outcomes of economic theories
This article examines the approaches adopted by various schools of economic thought towards dealing with space and time. Each school has its own approach, though their treatment of time and space has generally been implicit. These spatial and temporal factors determine, right from the start, the way both reality and the explanatory frameworks which are supposed to take account of that very reality are looked at. The purpose of examining these var…
Increased Capital Mobility/Liquidity and its Repercussions at Regional Level: Some Lessons from the Experiences of Switzerland and the United Kingdom (1975-2000)
The most significant structural change undergone by the British and Swiss economies during the past 25 years (1975-2000) is indisputably the development of their financial systems. From this point of view, the two countries show a number of similarities: the presence of one or more international financial place(s), large enterprises which expanded greatly on the international front during that period, the decline of their industrial regions, a mo…
The Innovative Milieus Approach: Toward a Territorialized Understanding of the Economy
Space has always been more or less present in economic theories. Nevertheless, traditional approaches, as well as the so-called new economic geography, introduce space subsequently. Economic theories are first built independently of spatial and temporal contexts, for example, through costs varying according to distance. The innovative milieus approach is based on the ideas that space-or, more precisely, territory-is the matrix of economic develop…
Exchange Rate and Regional Divergences: The Swiss Case
From 1975 to 1995, the Swiss franc appreciated in a near constant manner compared with the currencies of all of the country’s commercial partners. This paper will seek to demonstrate that the various regions in Switzerland evolve diVerently when faced with a continuously appreciating currency. The paper is not in the nature of an econometric study and will not seek to quantify the gains and losses of each region, but it will view their structural…
Sustainability and the Anchoring of Capital: Negotiations Surrounding Two Major Urban Projects in Switzerland
Theurillat T. and Crevoisier O. Sustainability and the anchoring of capital: negotiations surrounding two major urban projects in Switzerland, Regional Studies. This article deals with the anchoring of mobile financial capital in the city and urban sustainability. Illustrated by a case study in the Swiss context, it develops the theory that new forms of negotiation are appearing around urban projects. Development/construction firms are playing a …
The Sustainability of a Financialized Urban Megaproject: The Case of Sihlcity in Zurich
Financialization and sustainable urban planning are now two major components of urban production and landscape change in Western cities. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the intervention of financial actors influences urban sustainability in the building of megaprojects, by developing a conceptual framework for analysis and interpretation. This framework aims first to examine the way in which sustainability has been produced by t…
The Innovative Milieus Approach: Toward a Territorialized Understanding of the Economy
Space has always been more or less present in economic theories. Nevertheless, traditional approaches, as well as the so-called new economic geography, introduce space subsequently. Economic theories are first built independently of spatial and temporal contexts, for example, through costs varying according to distance. The innovative milieus approach is based on the ideas that space-or, more precisely, territory-is the matrix of economic develop…
Commentary: From capital landing to urban anchoring: The negotiated city
This commentary article proposes three ideal types of ‘anchoring of finance capital into the city’, i.e. the way in which capital, as it is valued in financial markets, is transformed into real capital and vice versa. Some contexts will allow market finance s visions of the city to become reality without great alteration, and this produces the ‘financialised city’. In this case, the value of the city corresponds to trading on the financial market…
Beyond Territorial Innovation Models: The Pertinence of the Territorial Approach
Crevoisier O. Beyond territorial innovation models: the pertinence of the territorial approach, Regional Studies . Research on territorial innovation models (TIMs) has had and still has a considerable impact on innovation studies in a broad range of fields (political economy, geography, sociology, administrative and political science, etc.). This paper suggests that a broader approach -- territorial economy -- which became structured to a conside…
The real estate markets: Players, institutions and territories
Revealing the parties, the processes and the institutions and, consequently, both the diversity and contingency of the real estate markets, the existing increasing literature emphasises the contemporary numerous links and interdependencies between real estate, land value, planning and town planning policy and even the financial system. This paper is an attempt to understand all the real estate markets, from the most peripheral ones, where the urb…
Beyond Economic Base Theory: The Role of the Residential Economy in Attracting Income to Swiss Regions
Segessemann A. and Crevoisier O. Beyond economic base theory: the role of the residential economy in attracting income to Swiss regions, Regional Studies. Regional development theories are mainly focused on export-based activities to explain regional competitiveness. The increasing mobility of workers and residents leads to a reconsideration of this approach. Residential economy has become a strategic issue to generate incomes within regions. Wit…
The Expansion of the Finance Industry and Its Impact on the Economy: A Territorial Approach Based on Swiss Pension Funds
A new economic geography of finance is emerging, and the current "financialization" of contemporary economies has contributed greatly to the reshaping of the economic landscape. How can these changes be understood and interpreted, especially from a territorial point of view? There are two contradictory economic theories regarding the tangible effects of the rise of the finance industry. According to neoclassical financial theorists, the finance i…
Increased Capital Mobility/Liquidity and its Repercussions at Regional Level: Some Lessons from the Experiences of Switzerland and the United Kingdom (1975-2000)
The most significant structural change undergone by the British and Swiss economies during the past 25 years (1975-2000) is indisputably the development of their financial systems. From this point of view, the two countries show a number of similarities: the presence of one or more international financial place(s), large enterprises which expanded greatly on the international front during that period, the decline of their industrial regions, a mo…
Lost in space: A critical approach to ANT and the social studies of finance
The increasing power of the financial industry in today’s economies has spatial fundamentals and important spatial consequences. This article examines the relevance of the social studies of finance (SSF), largely inspired by actor network theory (ANT) in this respect. Two critiques are made. First, SSF works are limited to the financial sphere and scarcely consider any connection with the rest of the economy. Second, their conception of space rem…
The Economic Value of Knowledge: Embodied in Goods or Embedded in Cultures
Crevoisier O. The economic value of knowledge: embodied in goods or embedded in cultures?, Regional Studies. ‘Tacit’ knowledge is a fuzzy concept – a kind of never opened black box – that has not allowed understanding about how knowledge gives birth to monetary income, or to regional development. This paper proposes a distinction between substantial and significant knowledge. While the former refers to knowledge being sold and bought like a good …
Anchoring Urban Development: Globalisation, Attractiveness and Complexity
Since the work of Hoyt in the 1930s, economic theories of urban development have stressed the primacy of manufacturing because of the existence of a regional multiplier effect. This model was extended to traded services and, in the last 10 years, to the residential and presential economy, taking into account the fact that mobile consumers and residents also bring monetary flows into regions. The city today is both a productive agglomeration and a…
Qualification-déqualification professionnelles des immigrants.Approche théorique
Los fenómenos de cualificación-degradación profesional de los inmigrantes. Alain Berset, Serge-Alexandre Weygold, Olivier Crevoisier et François Hainard. Para estudiar el impacto de las migraciones internacionales sobre los sistemas productivos de las regiones de acogida, es necesario prestar particular atención al estudio y a la comprensión de comó se realizan las transferencias de competencias; de comó éstas se ajustan e influyen en los proceso…
Economic theories and spatial transformations clarifying the space-time premises and outcomes of economic theories
This article examines the approaches adopted by various schools of economic thought towards dealing with space and time. Each school has its own approach, though their treatment of time and space has generally been implicit. These spatial and temporal factors determine, right from the start, the way both reality and the explanatory frameworks which are supposed to take account of that very reality are looked at. The purpose of examining these var…
Proximity and Territory versus Space in Regional Science
Empirical evidence tends to show that regional development occurs only in certain places. Therefore, one can ask the central question of the role of physical proximity in economic development processes. Economists try to answer this question through the concept of externalities, but this does not explain why certain externalities are linked with physical proximity. In this paper the author tries first to show why mainstream economists are not abl…
Exchange Rate and Regional Divergences: The Swiss Case
From 1975 to 1995, the Swiss franc appreciated in a near constant manner compared with the currencies of all of the country’s commercial partners. This paper will seek to demonstrate that the various regions in Switzerland evolve diVerently when faced with a continuously appreciating currency. The paper is not in the nature of an econometric study and will not seek to quantify the gains and losses of each region, but it will view their structural…
Two ways to look at learning regions in the context of globalization: The homogenizing and particularizing approaches
Internet Et La Recomposition Territoriale Des Relations Dans l'Agriculture Suisse
L'agriculture et l'industrie agro‐alimentaire suisses se transformed très rapidement. À un monde industrial fonctionnant à l'échelle nationale et basé sur des normes techniques succède un monde domestique basé sur l'identité régionale et les relations interpersonnelles. L'utilisation d'Internet devrait participer à la recomposition des relations entre producteurs et consommateurs et refléter les transformations territoriales qu'elles impliquent. …
Proximity and Territory versus Space in Regional Science
Empirical evidence tends to show that regional development occurs only in certain places. Therefore, one can ask the central question of the role of physical proximity in economic development processes. Economists try to answer this question through the concept of externalities, but this does not explain why certain externalities are linked with physical proximity. In this paper the author tries first to show why mainstream economists are not abl…
Two ways to look at learning regions in the context of globalization: The homogenizing and particularizing approaches
Internet Et La Recomposition Territoriale Des Relations Dans l'Agriculture Suisse
L'agriculture et l'industrie agro‐alimentaire suisses se transformed très rapidement. À un monde industrial fonctionnant à l'échelle nationale et basé sur des normes techniques succède un monde domestique basé sur l'identité régionale et les relations interpersonnelles. L'utilisation d'Internet devrait participer à la recomposition des relations entre producteurs et consommateurs et refléter les transformations territoriales qu'elles impliquent. …
Qualification-déqualification professionnelles des immigrants.Approche théorique
Los fenómenos de cualificación-degradación profesional de los inmigrantes. Alain Berset, Serge-Alexandre Weygold, Olivier Crevoisier et François Hainard. Para estudiar el impacto de las migraciones internacionales sobre los sistemas productivos de las regiones de acogida, es necesario prestar particular atención al estudio y a la comprensión de comó se realizan las transferencias de competencias; de comó éstas se ajustan e influyen en los proceso…
L'approche par les milieux innovateurs: État des lieux et perspectives
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Exchange Rate and Regional Divergences: The Swiss Case
From 1975 to 1995, the Swiss franc appreciated in a near constant manner compared with the currencies of all of the country’s commercial partners. This paper will seek to demonstrate that the various regions in Switzerland evolve diVerently when faced with a continuously appreciating currency. The paper is not in the nature of an econometric study and will not seek to quantify the gains and losses of each region, but it will view their structural…
The Innovative Milieus Approach: Toward a Territorialized Understanding of the Economy
Space has always been more or less present in economic theories. Nevertheless, traditional approaches, as well as the so-called new economic geography, introduce space subsequently. Economic theories are first built independently of spatial and temporal contexts, for example, through costs varying according to distance. The innovative milieus approach is based on the ideas that space-or, more precisely, territory-is the matrix of economic develop…
Increased Capital Mobility/Liquidity and its Repercussions at Regional Level: Some Lessons from the Experiences of Switzerland and the United Kingdom (1975-2000)
The most significant structural change undergone by the British and Swiss economies during the past 25 years (1975-2000) is indisputably the development of their financial systems. From this point of view, the two countries show a number of similarities: the presence of one or more international financial place(s), large enterprises which expanded greatly on the international front during that period, the decline of their industrial regions, a mo…
Cultural Resources and Regional Development: The Case of the Cultural Legacy of Watchmaking
Cultural resources are today the object of considerable attention in regional economics. Ground for new forms of innovation these resources have given rise to numerous works aiming at understanding the emergence and organisation of culture based economic activities and at identifying the role of these activities in regional development and urban planning. The objective of this article is to explore the way in which resources, and in particular cu…
Economic theories and spatial transformations clarifying the space-time premises and outcomes of economic theories
This article examines the approaches adopted by various schools of economic thought towards dealing with space and time. Each school has its own approach, though their treatment of time and space has generally been implicit. These spatial and temporal factors determine, right from the start, the way both reality and the explanatory frameworks which are supposed to take account of that very reality are looked at. The purpose of examining these var…
Cultural Resources and Regional Development: The Case of the Cultural Legacy of Watchmaking
Cultural resources are today the object of considerable attention in regional economics. Ground for new forms of innovation these resources have given rise to numerous works aiming at understanding the emergence and organisation of culture based economic activities and at identifying the role of these activities in regional development and urban planning. The objective of this article is to explore the way in which resources, and in particular cu…
Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: From the Proximity Paradigm to Multi-location Milieus
This paper addresses the issue of updating a research agenda about territorial innovation models (TIMs) such as innovative milieus, industrial districts, regional innovation systems, etc. The theoretical shift from innovation studies to the knowledge economy is taken into account by the suggested concept of territorial knowledge dynamics (TKDs). Observable major changes within society are also integrated, especially the huge increase in the mobil…
The Expansion of the Finance Industry and Its Impact on the Economy: A Territorial Approach Based on Swiss Pension Funds
A new economic geography of finance is emerging, and the current "financialization" of contemporary economies has contributed greatly to the reshaping of the economic landscape. How can these changes be understood and interpreted, especially from a territorial point of view? There are two contradictory economic theories regarding the tangible effects of the rise of the finance industry. According to neoclassical financial theorists, the finance i…
La pertinence de l'approche territoriale
Une approche économique qui tient compte de l’espace et du temps apporte un éclairage original sur quantité de questions contemporaines. Les travaux sur les Modèles territoriaux d’innovation (Territorial innovation models - TIMs - MOULAERT et SEKIA, 2003) ont eu des impacts considérables sur les études sur l’innovation dans de très nombreux domaines (économie politique, géographie, sociologie, sciences politiques et administratives, etc.). Dans c…
Beyond Territorial Innovation Models: The Pertinence of the Territorial Approach
Crevoisier O. Beyond territorial innovation models: the pertinence of the territorial approach, Regional Studies . Research on territorial innovation models (TIMs) has had and still has a considerable impact on innovation studies in a broad range of fields (political economy, geography, sociology, administrative and political science, etc.). This paper suggests that a broader approach -- territorial economy -- which became structured to a conside…
Sustainability and the Anchoring of Capital: Negotiations Surrounding Two Major Urban Projects in Switzerland
Theurillat T. and Crevoisier O. Sustainability and the anchoring of capital: negotiations surrounding two major urban projects in Switzerland, Regional Studies. This article deals with the anchoring of mobile financial capital in the city and urban sustainability. Illustrated by a case study in the Swiss context, it develops the theory that new forms of negotiation are appearing around urban projects. Development/construction firms are playing a …
The Sustainability of a Financialized Urban Megaproject: The Case of Sihlcity in Zurich
Financialization and sustainable urban planning are now two major components of urban production and landscape change in Western cities. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the intervention of financial actors influences urban sustainability in the building of megaprojects, by developing a conceptual framework for analysis and interpretation. This framework aims first to examine the way in which sustainability has been produced by t…
Lost in space: A critical approach to ANT and the social studies of finance
The increasing power of the financial industry in today’s economies has spatial fundamentals and important spatial consequences. This article examines the relevance of the social studies of finance (SSF), largely inspired by actor network theory (ANT) in this respect. Two critiques are made. First, SSF works are limited to the financial sphere and scarcely consider any connection with the rest of the economy. Second, their conception of space rem…
The real estate markets: Players, institutions and territories
Revealing the parties, the processes and the institutions and, consequently, both the diversity and contingency of the real estate markets, the existing increasing literature emphasises the contemporary numerous links and interdependencies between real estate, land value, planning and town planning policy and even the financial system. This paper is an attempt to understand all the real estate markets, from the most peripheral ones, where the urb…
The Economic Value of Knowledge: Embodied in Goods or Embedded in Cultures
Crevoisier O. The economic value of knowledge: embodied in goods or embedded in cultures?, Regional Studies. ‘Tacit’ knowledge is a fuzzy concept – a kind of never opened black box – that has not allowed understanding about how knowledge gives birth to monetary income, or to regional development. This paper proposes a distinction between substantial and significant knowledge. While the former refers to knowledge being sold and bought like a good …
Beyond Economic Base Theory: The Role of the Residential Economy in Attracting Income to Swiss Regions
Segessemann A. and Crevoisier O. Beyond economic base theory: the role of the residential economy in attracting income to Swiss regions, Regional Studies. Regional development theories are mainly focused on export-based activities to explain regional competitiveness. The increasing mobility of workers and residents leads to a reconsideration of this approach. Residential economy has become a strategic issue to generate incomes within regions. Wit…
Commentary: From capital landing to urban anchoring: The negotiated city
This commentary article proposes three ideal types of ‘anchoring of finance capital into the city’, i.e. the way in which capital, as it is valued in financial markets, is transformed into real capital and vice versa. Some contexts will allow market finance s visions of the city to become reality without great alteration, and this produces the ‘financialised city’. In this case, the value of the city corresponds to trading on the financial market…
Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development: Rethinking Innovative Milieus
Introduction: Sustainability, innovative milieus and territorial development
As an introduction to this book, this chapter provides insights on the evolution of innovation patterns, and in particular when dealing with sustainable issues. It highlights the relationship between territory and sustainable innovations and identifies the relationships that such innovations (re)build with territory, as well as the forms of localization that they induce. It presents the four dimensions of sustainable innovation identified in the …
Les transactions économico-sexuelles: Actrices et acteurs, institutions et territoires
Cet article adopte l'hypothèse avancée par Tabet (2004 ; 2001), selon laquelle les transactions sexuelles sont toujours encastrées dans un cadre économique, et cherche à illustrer comment cet encastrement se présente aujourd'hui avec une étude de cas numérique. Les transactions économiques sexuelles (TES) sont abordées dans une perspective institutionnaliste et territoriale, ce qui nous permet de compléter le cadre structuraliste de Tabet et de s…
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