Pôles de compétitivité et spécificité de la ressource technologique : une illustration grenobloise

This article proposes a theoretical reading of the competitiveness poles. After bringing back to mind their main features, the author makes the hypothesis of a producing city that has become a major actor of globalization and that participates in the assumed depletion of the fordist model. The author suggests to see the emergence of a new capitalism in the relation between production and territory. He defends the idea that the basis of wealth production evolve and become relational. Hence one should not assign to the pole a goal of productivity but rather of specification. © 2008 Lavoisier, Paris. Tous droits reserves.