Innovation is defined by the creation and commercialization of a new product and new technologies, the use of new production processes and labour inputs or the entering in new markets. Knowledge economy implies that innovation is more and more the outcome of interaction between firms, universities, public institutions and consumers. Networks of innovation create new knowledge and commercialise it, embodied in new modes of production and distribution. Innovation stems from technological, organizational and distributional change.

JIE is a lieu of discussion of new innovation strategies of firms and organization which have an impact on the economy and society. How do firms conceive innovation processes? How does innovation impact on firms’ competitiveness and performance? The journal hosts contributions to the analysis of the realisation of innovation, strategies of appropriation and those of diffusion of knowledge at an international scale, where MNCs dominate the competition context and high skilled human resources are a precious asset to survive.

JIE readers will enjoy as well discussions on the most appropriate management tools to have a better understanding of how to operationalise and implement innovation. JIE is keen in promoting a multidisciplinary approach and methodology which illustrate firm’s technological opportunities, organizational strategies and integrated management of research and development projects, marketing and finance. JIE is devoted to promote a debate on innovation, both theoretical and empirical.

Technological change, entrepreneurship, firms strategies, public policies and more in general the evolution of the economies and societies are the issues to be explored within JIE.

Length
Between 4000 and 8000 words (10 – 25 pages typed on one side only with 1.5 point interlining and margins, including tables, graphs, figures, notes and bibliography.

Number of copies
Texts should be sent to the publication director, preferably by e-mail (uzunidis@univ-littoral.fr) or by mail in three copies (the name and address of the author should precede the text on a separate sheet).

Summaries, key-words, codes
Articles should be accompanied by a summary in French and another in English, each of 300 words maximum; by five to seven key-words and the corresponding JEL* codes
(http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html)

Notes and Bibliographical References
The author is invited to keep references to textual notes to a minimum. These should be numbered successively in the body of the text and refer to footnotes on the page in question. Bibliographical references in the body of the text should include, in brackets, an indication of the author’s name(s) and the date of publication of the work or the article cited, and where possible the page number (e.g. Schumpeter, 1949, p. 438).

Bibliographical References at the end of the Article
Authors referred to should be listed in alphabetical order, quoting the name (in capitals), first name initial(s), date of publication, title of the work (in italics for book titles; in inverted commas for an article, indicating the title of the journal in italics, with the volume no. and page numbers concerned). When several works by the same author are published in the same year, lower-case letters should be added to identify each case mentioned: 1981a, 1981b, etc. For example:
PENROSE, E. (1959), The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, Oxford, Basil Blackwell. MACHLUP, F. (1967), “Theories of the firm: marginalist, managerial, behavioural”, American Economic Review, n° 57, pp. 1-33

Tables
These should each be preceded by a title and numbered consecutively.

Graphs and Figures
Graphs and figures are subject to the same rules. They should follow a separate numbering system from that used for tables.

*Journal of Economic Literature


Submission of Articles
Texts should be sent to the publication director at the following address:
Dimitri Uzunidis
Journal of Innovation Economics
Lab.RII
Maison de la Recherche en Sciences de l’Homme
59140 Dunkerque
France

Mail : labrii@univ-littoral.fr

Articles submitted to the review JIE are forwarded to two anonymous adjudicators. Depending on the opinion of these adjudicators, the editorial committee either accepts, refuses, or requests authors to carry out adjustments or modifications to the text which they consider necessary.

Since the entire text of JIE is distributed via the internet site www.cairn.info, all authors accept that their article will be published in electronic format.

BOUTILLIER (Univ. Littoral, France), D. BRECARD (IAE Nantes, France), F. DJELLAL (Univ. Lille, France), David DUMONT (Wesford, Journal secretary), F. GALLOUJ (Univ. Lille, France), A. HAMDOUCH (Univ. Lille, France), J. KRAFFT (CNRS, France), B. LAPERCHE (Univ. Littoral, France), P. LE MASNE (Univ. Poitiers, France), F. MUNIER (Univ. Strasbourg, France), M. POUCHOL (Univ. Reims, France), M. SAVONA (Université de Lille 1), C. SERFATI (Univ. Versailles, France), C. TANGUY (INRA, France), L. TEMRI (Univ. Montpellier, France), D. UZUNIDIS (Univ. Littoral, France).

P. ARESTIS (Univ. Cambridge, United Kingdom)
C. AZAÏS (Univ. Picardie, France)
R. BORRELLY (Univ. Grenoble, France)
S. BOUTILLIER (Univ. Littoral, France)
D. BRECARD (IAE Nantes, France)
L.C. BRESSER PEREIRA (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)
G. CAIRE (Univ. Paris, France)
A.L. COT (Univ. Paris, France)
J. COURVISANOS (Univ. Ballarat, Australia)
P. DAVIDSON (Univ. Tennessee, USA)
S. DE BRUNHOFF (CNRS, France)
R. DI RUZZA (Univ. Provence, France)
M. DIETRICH (Univ. Sheffield, United Kingdom)
G. DOSI (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italia)
M. EL MOUHOUD (Univ. Paris, France)
M. FELDMAN (Univ. North Carolina, USA)
J. FONTANEL (Univ. Grenoble, France)
D. FORAY (Federal technical school of Lausanne, Switzerland)
J.-L. GAFFARD (Univ. Nice, France)
J.K. GALBRAITH (Univ. Texas, USA)
F. GALLOUJ (Univ. Lille, France)
A. HAMDOUCH (Univ. Lille, France)
G. HARCOURT (Univ. Cambridge, United Kingdom)
P.-A. JULIEN (Univ. of Québec, Canada)
B. LAPERCHE (Univ. Littoral, France)
J.-F. LEMETTRE (Univ. Paris Sud, France)
G. LIODAKIS (TUC, Greece)
P. LLERENA (Univ. Strasbourg, France)
J. LOJKINE (EHESS-CNRS, France)
F. LOUÇA (TUL, Portugal)
B.Å. LUNDVALL (Univ. Aalborg, Denmark)
B. MADEUF (Univ. Paris, France)
M. MARCHESNAY (Univ. Montpellier, France)
B. MARIS (Univ. Paris, France)
J. MOLAS GALLART (TUV, Spain)
C. PEREZ (TUT, Estonia)
J. PERRIN (CNRS, France)
Y. PESQUEUX (CNAM, France)
P. PETIT (CEPREMAP-CNRS, France)
J. PETRAS (Univ. Binghamton, USA)
D. PLIHON (Univ. Paris, France)
J. RAVIX (Univ. Nice, France)
P. ROLLET (Univ. Lille, France)
J. SAWYER (Univ. Seattle, USA)
C. SERFATI (Univ. Versailles, France)
D. UZUNIDIS (TUC and Univ. Littoral, France)
N. VANENCLOO (Univ. Lille, France)
M. VERRET (Univ. Nantes, France)
N. VON TUNZELMANN (Univ. Sussex, United Kingdom)
J.-B. ZIMMERMANN (GREQAM-CNRS, France)