ABSTRACT
The issue of the agglomeration and the location of economic activities has been the subject of numerous regional studies. Various conceptual models have been developed to show how certain socio-economic processes shape particular spaces and how they, in turn, are shaped by them. These models principally reflect a process of economic globalization characterized by the increased mobility of goods and services but limited by those production factors that underpin innovation, such as knowledge and innovation capital. Of these various models, the concept of innovative milieu provides an explanation as to how certain local players end up developing formal and informal production and innovation networks, autonomous in an increasingly integrated global economy (Camagni and Maillat 2006). To what extent should this approach be updated to take into account current thinking and include new territorial, economic and social dynamics?
