Blandine LapercheUniversité du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO) | ULCO · Département d'Economie-Gestion
Blandine Laperche
PhD in economics
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Introduction
Blandine Laperche is professor of economics at University du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO). She is President of the Research Network on Innovation (http://2ri.eu). Blandine does research in Business Economics, Entrepreneurial Economics and Industrial Organization. Their current project is 'Territoire entrepreneurial durable / Sustainable entrepreneurial territory.'
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January 1999 - August 2016
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This chapter highlights the link between the circular economy and the innovation ecosystem in an industrial port territory. We assume that a circular project at the territorial level can lead to the emergence of an innovation ecosystem called “circular innovation ecosystem” which is characterized by its actors, relationships, and resources and resu...
Circular economy, industrial ecology, short supply chains: all themes that recur frequently in economic and political discourse, associated as they are with the idea of a necessary and imminent change in modes of production and consumption, to preserve resources and the planet on which we live. Yet, their meaning and the potential for technological...
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The notion of Responsibility is at the heart of many institutional and political discourses and research dealing with science and innovation. Responsibility means that actors in science and innovation, universities, research centers, schools, companies, must take into account in the...
1) Optimisation du procédé d'extraction d'indigo sur les feuilles. 2) Extraction de composés d'intérêt biologique dans les différentes parties de la plante par extraction classique en comparaison avec des méthodes axées sur la chimie verte : utilisation d'agrosolvant comme le cyrène 2. 3) Caractérisation des extraits par chromatographie et par RMN....
Since its discovery in the late 18th century and mass production in the early 20th century, titanium dioxide has been used in a wide range of applications like paints, cosmetics, energy storage, photocatalysis and food. The questioning of its use as a food additive (E171 in Europe) is mainly linked to the presence of nanoparticles whereas it should...
According to scientists, the bioeconomy represents a solution to climate change, natural resource scarcity and food security. At the socio-economic level, it allows to realize a green growth and a job creation (Pika et al, 2021). In this context, territorial bio-based industrial chains of production appear as a well-suited industrial organization t...
Cet article présente le contexte et les orientations du numéro spécial intitulé « La valorisation de la recherche dans les petites et moyennes universités » publié dans la revue Technologie et Innovation. Nous définissons d’abord cette troisième mission de valorisation de la recherche, qui s’ajoute aux missions traditionnelles d’enseignement et de...
Cet article analyse les conditions dans lesquelles la valorisation de la recherche peut être une opportunité pour les petites et moyennes universités. Nous présentons et discutons les indicateurs traditionnellement utilisés pour évaluer cette activité et montrons qu’ils correspondent à une approche exclusivement centrée sur la recherche, de surcroî...
This conceptual paper deals with the innovation capabilities of firms. To study these capabilities, we use the concept of knowledge capital (KC) that has been built through the evolution of the economic thinking in relation to three main concepts: knowledge, firm, and capital. We also compare the concept of KC with other currents concepts used to s...
Our purpose is to examine the link between circular economy (CE) and territorial development in the literature. Works on CE most often deal with its integration within firms’ strategies. The link between CE and the territorial development process (TDP) is more rarely studied. We define the TDP through the interaction between three key dimensions: c...
This article studies the current controversy about the food additive titanium dioxide (E171), marked by the French decision to temporarily suspend the placing on the market of foodstuffs containing it, beginning on January 1st 2020. It aims to understand the scientific and technological content of the controversy, which implies a better assessment...
Innovation has long been recognized as an instrument of competitiveness and growth and
as an effective tool to stimulate change after the crises, both the macro- and micro-level.
Innovation can be seen as an outcome (new products, processes or organizations), but also
as a process that involves many activities linked together, namely basic research...
The changes that have affected academic institutions and scientific work in the past 20 years can be explained by the evolution of the firm’s organization and strategy. The current network firm represents the fourth stage in the organization of production, characterized by the importance of networks, linking salaried people from the firm and from m...
Purpose
The expectations surrounding innovation as the principal mean by which firms gain a sustainable advantage while simultaneously alleviating social problems are tremendous. However, in the process of developing innovation, many small entrepreneurs, SMEs, as well as large firms struggle to access the necessary finances in order to further deve...
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Cet article introduit le numéro spécial de Technologie et Innovation sur les systèmes produit-service (SPS). Il revient sur l’origine du terme, présente son actualité par le biais de quelques éléments bibliométriques et introduit les principaux débats actuels. Les systèmes produit-service illustrent la tertiarisation des économies industrielles, et...
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This chapter presents the concept of enterprise knowledge capital, which makes it possible to study how a company combines resources made of knowledge and information. It contributes to the identification of the actors, inside and outside the company, involved in the innovation process. The chapter provides a general definition of knowledge capital...
The objective of this paper is to study the supply side of the silver market, which is usually neglected by research on this topic. Adopting a systemic approach to innovation, our main goals are to identify the nature of the innovations developed, the way innovations are created, and the issues related to their emergence and diffusion. Our research...
La fraude scientifique correspond à des pratiques répréhensibles de membres de la communauté scientifique, comme la production ou la falsification de données et le plagiat. Elle est souvent traitée comme le résultat d’un problème éthique individuel de la part de chercheurs aux pratiques douteuses. Dans ce chapitre, sans minimiser ces formes individ...
Présentation de l’émission du 20 novembre : ”Dans une société industrialisée et développée comme la notre, l’économie peut-elle nous aider à penser le recyclage et la diminution de la production de déchet ? C’est vers cette piste que tend l’économie circulaire, piste que nous allons explorer aujourd’hui. ”
This chapter analyzes the building of firms' knowledge capital in its historical context, that of industrial capitalism. It begins with a history of the integration between science and technology, showing how companies, manufactures and large industry have gradually developed strategies for the appropriation of scientific and technical information...
This chapter investigates the meaning of words. The term innovation is plural and its sense has evolved over time. The chapter examines the current typologies, the modalities of organization of activities that intertwine to give rise to innovation and the indicators used for its measurement. In order to grasp the knowledge capital of an enterprise,...
Dans cet article, nous faisons l’hypothèse que l’écologie industrielle (EI) peut être un vecteur de développement ou de reconversion d’un territoire. Toutefois, la réussite des expériences d’écologie industrielle semble dépendre d’une gouvernance territoriale adaptée. La plupart les travaux insistent sur la mise en œuvre d’une gouvernance orientée...
This chapter presents some commonly-encountered obstacles and difficulties that may prevent some industrial ecology projects and short food supply chains from being successfully carried out. Companies must deal with complexity in terms of waste repurposing, materials degradation and the impurity of sub-products used in the recycling process. Implem...
The definition and implementation of circular economy, industrial ecology and short supply chains show a growing consciousness of the environmental impacts of economic activities; and are part of an approach aimed at developing a more sustainable model of economic development. The common point of these approaches is to be systemic and take into acc...
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In contrast to the linear "take-make-dispose" model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy. This model aims to optimize the use of resources and to reduce or eliminate waste, and is based on re-use, repair, ecodesign, industrial...
In contrast to the linear “take-make-dispose” model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy. This model aims to optimize the use of resources and to reduce or eliminate waste, and is based on re-use, repair, ecodesign, industrial ecology, sustainable supply and responsible consumption.
Industria...
S’opposant au schéma linéaire de consommation des ressources fondé sur le triptyque « extraire-fabriquer-jeter », l’économie circulaire propose un nouveau modèle industriel qui vise à optimiser l’utilisation des ressources et à éliminer ou réduire les déchets. Elle s’appuie sur le ré-emploi, la réparation, l’écoconception, l’écologie industrielle,...
Industrial ecology may generate agglomeration effects favorable to business development and territorial attractiveness. As such, it may be considered as a tool for sustainable territorial development. But it is necessary to reduce the (technical, economic, informational…) difficulties ensuing from the implementation of industrial symbiosis. We stud...
This article proposes an analysis of the theories of the firm through the question of its size and of tits boundaries : Why does the firm grow ? Why does it stop growing preferring a networked organization ? In the first part, we come back to the main arguments explaining the growth of the firms’ size, while in the second part we present those rela...
This paper focuses on the innovation activities of French SMEs. We put forward a “French paradox”, expressed by a quite important effort in terms of R&D investments and poor results in terms of innovation as measured by traditional indicators. To explain this paradox, we study their strategy of knowledge capital building and valorization. To do thi...
The aim of this conceptual paper is to study the origin of the entrepreneur's function. We examine the construction of the entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ (the set of knowledge, relations and financial resources gathered together by the entrepreneur) and the role of the socio-economic background in this matter. The ‘organic square of entreprene...
L’innovation ou l’introduction de toutes sortes de nouveautés dans l’économie, devient un réel sujet d’étude dans la seconde partie du 20e siècle et, à partir des années 1970, s’immisce dans les cursus universitaires d’économie, de management, de sociologie, d’ingénierie, etc. L’innovation constitue l’intersection de trois thématiques clés : la cro...
Environmental constraints lead to important changes in the innovation strategies of manufacturing firms. In this paper, the development of Product-Service Systems (PSS) in 10 manufacturing firms that are part of the French CAC40 Index is studied. A special effort is made to investigate the reasons and the forms of PSS development, their impact on i...
This paper deals with the project of a merger between BAE systems and EADS, announced in September 2012 and finally cancelled one month later. It investigates the rationale of the merger project and the reasons that explain its collapse. Our first aim is to assess the importance - usually put forward in the literature - of the pre-merger phase in t...
Anti-counterfeiting strategies of luxury cosmetic enterprises: Accumulation versus valorisation of the knowledge-capital
In the branch of luxury cosmetics, counterfeiting is harmful to firms, in terms of image and profitability. Fighting it is hence an important economic stake. In this paper, we study the efficiency of technological innovation as a...
To innovate, firms constitute a ‘knowledge-capital’, defined as a set of information and knowledge produced, acquired and used in the value creation process. In this paper, we focus on small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and study their ability to develop their own knowledge-capital as well as their role in the formation of larger companies' on...
The purpose of this paper is to study the place of eco-innovation in industrial firms’ current strategy and to understand how they achieve this change in their technological trajectory. This is mainly based on the interviews conducted between 2009 and 2011 within eight corporations settled in France. The study revealed that in a context of crisis,...
According to J. Immelt (General Electric’s CEO), considering the new forms of competition and the existing opportunities in emerging countries, industrial corporations must develop reverse innovation (Immelt et al., 2009). Reverse Innovation consists in designing products no longer in industrialized countries but in emerging countries, where they a...
'Crisis, Innovation and Sustainable Development is a fascinating exploration at the frontiers of economics and ecology. It combines topical surveys of current work with deep reflection on the repressed role of nature in the history of economics. A work of great range and value, especially for all concerned with the strategy of economic policy going...
The purpose of this paper is to study the place of eco-innovation in industrial firms’ current strategy and to understand how they achieve this change in their technological trajectory. It is mainly based on interviews achieved within eight corporations settled in France in 2009-2011. We find that in a context of crisis, the firms consider eco-inno...
Alors que dans le monde entier l’utilisation des ressources naturelles ne cesse de croître et l’environnement de se dégrader, les économistes,les managers et les politiques s’inquiètent avant tout de la perte de compétitivité de leurs entreprises et de leurs économies. Ils focalisent aussi leur attention sur les performances financières des système...
The networked enterprise simultaneously seeks to develop new knowledge in order to compete on international markets thanks
to its innovation capacity and to improve its allocation of resources, notably by reducing its production and organisational
costs. In this paper, we study the functions of intellectual property rights in these productive and o...
In the on-going context of globalization, the strategy of multinational enterprises combines the aims of constant supply renewal (through technological, but also organizational and commercial innovation) and of production rationalization (reduction of production costs). The financial dimension is narrowly linked to these strategies, as the financia...
Previously published as Higher Education Management, Higher Education Management and Policy (HEMP) is published three times each year and is edited by the OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education. It covers the field through articles and reports on such issues as quality assurance, human resources, funding, and international...
How to understand the current crisis at the World level? Following Joan Robinson, we present the definition of ‘new mercantilism’,
and explain how mercantilist practices have supported what we commonly call globalization. The current economic crisis can
be linked with mercantilist practices: globalization, because of the internal and external barri...
Industrial Crisis and Territorial Redeployment : PathDependency or Economic Renewal ? The Examples of Dunkerque (France) and Gdansk (Poland)
In the current knowledge-based economy, the development of “innovative milieus” is at the centre of territorial redeployment policies. The emergence of these innovative milieus stems from the trajectory that t...
Crisis, innovation and territorial renewal: path dependency and trajectories of evolution
In this paper, we seek to explain the constitution and the change of trajectory followed by a territorial economy. We explain the interest that can bring the concepts of learning, specific assets, secondary assets and routines to the question of the evolution...
Corporate social responsibility and profit. Rethinking the objectives of the companies
Can Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) become an objective of the enterprise ? How is its current success explained ? The aims, other than profit maximization, which are accepted by the theoreticians who consider the firm as a complex organization, are always...
Strategies of big pharma face to generics
What are the strategies adopted by Big Pharmaceutical Firms (Big Pharma) face to the globalized generics competition? In this paper our interest is targeted on the arbitration of these firms between knowledge-capital accumulation and knowledgecapital valorisation strategies. The knowledge-capital is defined...
A l'heure actuelle, dans la mondialisation et la fluidité des marchés, les systèmes territoriaux de recherche et d’innovation appuient l’intégration des entreprises de grande et de petite tailles dans la compétition internationale. L'attractivité des investissements, étrangers et nationaux, découle en effet des politiques conjoncturelles (exonérati...
Innovation Strategies of Firms in Life Science and appropriation of vegetal resources : process and stakes
The formation of the innovation potential of multinational firms in life science industries is so costly that the appropriation of the inventions stemming from it and of the resources it includes is fundamental. This explains the extension and...
Dans cet article, nous nous posons la question de l’usage de la propriété intellectuelle dans l’entreprise artisanale. Par le biais d’une enquête réalisée sur la période juillet 2008 – mai 2009 auprès de 24 entreprises artisanales françaises qui ont eu recours à la propriété intellectuelle, nous cherchons à comprendre les raisons qui les ont poussé...
This paper provides a survey on studies that analyze the macroeconomic effects of intellectual property rights (IPR). The first part of this paper introduces different patent policy instruments and reviews their effects on R&D and economic growth. This part also discusses the distortionary effects and distributional consequences of IPR protection a...
La responsabilit� sociale des entreprises (RSE) peut-elle devenir un objectif de l'entreprise ? Comment expliquer son succ�s actuel ? Pour r�pondre � ces questions, ce texte revient d'abord sur les objectifs assign�s � l'entreprise dans les diff�rentes th�ories contemporaines. Les objectifs, autres que celui de la maximisation du profit, accept�s p...
The genesis and diffusion of innovation depends upon the density of the cognitive and market relationships among individuals, organisations and institutions at both the micro- and macro-economic level. By addressing the nature of these relationships, which include cooperation, competition and power, this book presents an important and progressive e...
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L’objectif du programme d’étude intitulé IMPact des Ports dans l’Economie Circulaire (IMPPEC 2020-2022) associant ISI/Lab.RII (Centre de Recherche sur l’Innovation et Stratégies industrielles) de l’Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale et le Grand Port Maritime de Dunkerque (GPMD) est d’analyser du rôle des ports dans le développement de projets d’écologie industrielle/circulaire. Il s’appuie sur la construction d’un tableau de bord d’indicateurs portant sur l’implication du port, dans ses différentes missions, au développement et au renforcement de l’écologie industrielle à Dunkerque.
Un Label francophone est proposé par l’AUF et ses partenaires pour identifier, développer et valoriser l’innovation responsable en milieu universitaire francophone. (https://actif.auf.org/outils/un-autre-outil/)
Les universités membres de l’AUF pourront proposer à labellisation leurs innovations responsables à un comité d’experts dans une à quatre catégories reflétant les grandes missions de l’université: la gouvernance, la formation, la recherche et le service à la communauté.
Chaque université intéressée devra d’abord faire un auto-diagnostic pour évaluer son engagement social et environnemental, puis si elle est éligible, elle pourra présenter à candidature son innovation responsable. Si celle-ci est validée par le jury, l’établissement candidat pourra bénéficier du Label francophone de l’innovation responsable pour 3 ans et son innovation sera promue dans toute la francophonie universitaire.