A Region’s Commitment to the Building Process of Territorial Entrepreneurial Competences: Case Study of a Research Programm in the Centre-Val de Loire Region
The issue of entrepreneurial competences has often been explored from an individual prospective, yet more rarely from a territorial or regional one. However, regions are privileged places for interactions between economic players, resources and organizations hence constitute a territory propitious to innovation dynamics. First, the present paper introduces a theoretical framework that emphasizes the tenuous links between the resources and competences of a regional territory on the one hand, and the dynamics and entrepreneurship of that same territory on the other hand. Then, with the input of a regional programme dedicated to the production of a therapeutic innovation (biopharmaceuticals) in the Centre-Val de Loire Region, this research proposes a framework for the analysis of the building process of territorial entrepreneurial competences (CET).