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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the reasons and the forms of Product-Service Systems (PSS) development, their impact on innovation management as well as the prerequisites and limits of their implementation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the origin of the entrepreneur's function and the role of socio-economic background in the development of entrepreneurship, and show the importance of taking account of the structural characteristics of the productive system in the design of future entrepreneurship policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of the current financial and economic crisis on the strategy and the management of innovation in big industrial firms are studied, where firms rationalize their R&D expenses, accentuate their open innovation strategies, develop a strategic use of IPRs and try to implement new innovation paths, oriented toward the exploitation (low cost strategies) and the accumulation (clean technologies) of their knowledge-capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy, which 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop the idea of the existence of a growing contradiction between the socialisation of the knowledge capital and the tendency toward its oligopolistic appropriation, which is made easier notably by the evolution of patent laws and practices.