The Regional Integration of Biorefineries in France: an Approach by the Territorial Innovation Models
Résumé
A biorefinery integrated into its territory embodies the development of a business cluster, insofar as it reaches a minimum threshold on the geographical scale, while crossing progressive stages of regional development. From the point of view of the regional economy, there are several stages of spatial development and location of economic activities. The interest of this article lies in its objective to understand, from the point of view of regional economy, why the development of biorefineries follows the trajectory of economic activity clusters. To go further, we believe that through our example, the biorefinery can be considered as a new model of territorial innovation 1 both by its spatial development process, and by the territorial integration that prevails within these complexes, in an approach of economic sustainability. In a second step, we try to highlight the mechanisms at work as well as the determinants that allow the biorefinery to be territorially integrated.
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