Innovative Milieu and Innovative Entrepreneurship

A lot of research is being developed today around the relationship between the entrepreneur and their territory, with the underlying assumption of a more or less easy access to skills, knowledge, funding and infrastructure within a territory. The innovative milieu, defined as a set of actors (companies, institutions, etc.) located and anchored in a territory in which the interactions are developed multilaterally, constitute an environment which favours the appearance of various forms of innovation and the emergence of new companies. However the role of the entrepreneur is fundamental in exploiting the opportunities and resources offered by an innovative milieu. Indeed, he is the person who takes advantage of the territory's resources and contributes to the creation of new technologies and jobs through networks and proximities that he is able to exploit. In France, as we will see, the policy of clusters is presented as an incentive policy for collaboration and innovation, and conducive to innovative entrepreneurship.

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