2012/10 | LEM Working Paper Series | |
Exploring the causes behind the persistence of French technological specializations |
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Mafini Dosso |
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Keywords | ||
Technological specializations, Institutions, large firms
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JEL Classifications | ||
C10, L29, O38
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Abstract | ||
Responding to the research on the persistence of technological
specializations, this paper puts forward a complementary explanation
for the stability in the fields in which a country performs well
relatively to other countries. The study investigates the French
institutional and historical features that may explain the evolution
of the relative technological strengths of French organizations since
the end of the seventies. More precisely it focuses on the interplay
between three related institutional factors, the relatively high
commitment of the State, the prevailing role of French large firms and
of the technical experts from the Grandes Ecoles in shaping France?s
innovation system.
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