Abstract
This article contains a synthesis of thoughts and conclusions formulated at the close of a research programme entitled ‘Characterization of research–industry relations: the geographical role polarization plays in the competitiveness of Computer Integrated Manufacturing’. This document focuses on the particular case of Meylan's ZIRST, though the research programme was based on several case studies of technopoles of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, including Sophia-Antipolis and the Computer Integrated Manufacturing's poles – Nord/Pas-de-Calais and Saint-Etienne in France and Gothenberg in Sweden.
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