Territorial Organisation Networks (TONs) as a Tool for Territorial Development

EasyChair Preprint no. 9864

Abstract

Nowadays, we note, through experiments conducted in several countries, the appearance of new spatial dynamics at the regional and local level, in several spaces that are constantly evolving and changing. The concentration of companies, a phenomenon known as agglomeration, has made regions with similar characteristics at the outset very different in a few decades. These are the famous industrial districts (A. Marshall, 1890), the innovative environment (Crevoisier, 2001), the localized production system (Becattini, 1992), the business ecosystem (Moore, 1996), the cluster (Porter, 1998), and the technopoles (B. Ruffieux, 1991). In view of the proliferation of names, these forms of geographical grouping can be described as territorial networks of organizations (TNOs). According to Ehlinger et al (2007), we define these networks as coordinated groups of heterogeneous actors, geographically close, who cooperate and participate collectively in a production process. These networks are based on cooperation between organizations of different origins in order to allow for the joint development of both the organizations and the territory in which they are located. Indeed, at the origin of synergies between the companies and the public and private organizations involved, this relationship linking these different actors can be a real engine of development. This paper is a review of the literature on the contribution to the understanding of the interdependence between territorial networks of organization (RTO) and territorial development.

Keyphrases: Compétitivité territorial, Développement territorial, Réseaux territoriaux d'organisations

@Booklet{EasyChair:9864,
  author = {Chaymae Ouachani},
  title = {Territorial Organisation Networks (TONs) as a Tool for Territorial Development},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 9864},

  year = {EasyChair, 2023}}