Production Systems and Innovation in ‘Satellite’ Regions: Lessons from a Comparison between Mechanic Valley (France) and Beauce (Québec)
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Abstract
Abstract The recent craze among policymakers for innovation and regional economic development is no accident. It results from recent, widespread analyses highlighting innovation as the main factor in economic growth and the region as the most appropriate level at which to stimulate and support innovation. This article aims to show how the territorial impact of economic changes in a heightened competitive context has served to (re-)activate interplay between local actors whose ambition is to support and strengthen innovation within regions. It sets out to decode the processes and the mechanisms through which a region develops, the modes of governance established to support and promote these processes and the relationships formed by various actors in a region. We analyse two regions that we describe as ‘satellite’ regions: Mechanic Valley in France and Beauce in Canada. Each of these regions has, over a period of some ten years, seen processes marked both by increasingly strong anchoring in the local territory and by greater openness to the outside, and both have benefited from their relative proximity to the metropolitan areas of Toulouse and Québec, respectively. So we view them as typifying the emergence of new features of territorial development. Résumé L'engouement récent des décideurs politiques pour l'innovation et le développement économique régional n'a rien de fortuit. Il résulte de la diffusion d'analyses récentes qui isolent l'innovation comme facteur principal de la croissance économique d'une part, et de la région comme niveau le plus approprié pour stimuler et supporter l'innovation d'autre part. Cet article a pour objectif de montrer comment l'impact territorial de mutations économiques qui s'expriment dans un contexte concurrentiel exacerbé (ré)activent un jeu d'acteurs locaux dont l'ambition est de soutenir et renforcer l'innovation au sein des régions. Il vise à décrypter les processus et les mécanismes par lesquels une région se développe, les modalités de gouvernance mises en place pour soutenir et favoriser ces processus ainsi que les relations que nouent différents acteurs de la région. L'analyse porte sur des régions que nous qualifions de ‘satellites’: Mécanic Vallée en France et Beauce au Canada. Chacune de ces régions connaît, depuis une dizaine d'années des processus marqués à la fois par un renforcement de l'ancrage territorial local mais aussi par une ouverture vers l'extérieur qui bénéficie de leur proximité relative avec les aires métropolitaines de Toulouse et Québec. Elles nous paraissent ainsi être caractéristiques de l'émergence de nouvelles figures du développement territorial.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".