Analysis of a Territorial Innovation Ecosystem: The Case of Niort Tech
This paper analyses the structuring of a territorial innovation ecosystem (Niort Tech) as well as its individual, inter-organizational and institutional influences. We propose a grid of analysis of this ecosystem based on an approach in Evolutionary Economic Geography (via proximities), supplemented with theoretical contributions on Institutional Entrepreneurship. We identify a diversity of influence of proximities on this ecosystem. The latter is built mainly through “coopetition” between mutualist insurers and depends essentially on their resources. At this step, it seems to be a path dependency on the insurance and mutualist, with no real reflection of the sector in the future.