August 2010
Summary
Réalités industrielles
Creating jobs in the regions of France
Complete issue
This issue was coordinated
by Claude TRINK
This issue was coordinated
Editorial
By Pierre COUVEINHES
Introduction
By Claude TRINK
Ingénieur général des Mines, Commissaire à la réindustrialisation de la Picardie
Industry’s new financial tools and their application in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region
By François YOYOTTE
Commissaire à la réindustrialisation
The Internet has become a “space” where the “consumer-actor” addresses the consumer. Unable to remain outside these transactions, brand-names are organizing to stake out positions on the Web. A “living space” is taking shape, but codes of good conduct for transactions have to be created
The States-General of Industry, a catalyst for Lorraine
By Eric PIERRAT
Commissaire à la réindustrialisation de la Lorraine
The Internet has modified the relations between patients and care-givers. The new relation is based on increasing the patient’s participation in knowledge about the illness and in the prescription and administration of treatments. In this new context, questions arise about sharing the financial burden. The efforts to satisfy patients aspiring to become, as much as possible, actors in their own health will turn them into consumers who contribute to a new economic equilibrium of the health sector.
How Oise Department is coping with de-industrialization
By Claude TRINK
Ingénieur général des Mines, Commissaire à la réindustrialisation de la Picardie
Cyberwar challenges all traditional conceptions of the art of warfare. There are no longer attacks on a front. Instead, the enemy acts under cover. Nor are nation-states the only targets. The private sector has also come under attack, especially in a context of economic warfare. All armies have the duty of taking this new development into account when designing their military strategy
The successful revitalization of Ille-et-Vilaine Department, western France
By Jacques GARAU
Commissaire à la réindustrialisation pour la Bretagne
Cybercrime, like many forms of delinquence, is constantly changing under the impact of technological trends and new practices. It is a field for technical, operational and legal experimentation. This article presents a snapshot of the fight against cybercrime in mid-2010
Restructuring industry in the Arve Valley
By Gérard CASCINO
Commissaire à la réindustrialisation
Will the digital revolution never end? No end seems in sight, since the technological seeds sown by WW II, the landing on the moon and the clusters of inventions related to new terminals and the virtual universe. Along with all of this has come emphatic talk about an “information society” and a new economy during the mid-1990s, about the bursting of the Internet bubble and the convergence of the media as of the Web 1.0, and, nowadays, about the promises borne by cloud-computing
The successful reconversion of a firm in Franche-Comté to wind power
By Gilles CASSOTTI
New practices in the digital universe entail several changes that bring existing models under question. We, mere consumers, are being turned into active participants in this new digital economy. New players are emerging alongside traditional operators in this field, whence the relevance of questions about the redistribution of the value added by these activities
Restructuring the paper industry
By Pascal CLÉMENT, Commissaire à la réindustrialisation en Haute-Normandie Jean-Jacques BORDES, Consultant du groupe SECAFI – ALPHA Et Dominique LACHENAL et Professeur à l’Institut polytechnique de Grenoble
Commissaire à la réindustrialisation en Haute-Normandie
The “special” domain of law with regard to the Internet is grounded on classical law about commerce, liability, etc. The latter has been adapted to the Web. The philosophy guiding the formation of this special domain of law has been to regulate the Internet without hindering its development
Higher education and research, an issue in the economic battle being waged in the regions of France
By Daniel FIXARI et Frédérique PALLEZ Professeurs à Mines ParisTech
Professeurs à Mines ParisTech
How have the social sciences dealt with questions about the socialization — or lack thereof — of surfers on the Web? A look back on a debate running through studies of the Internet conducted in recent years…
Platforms of innovation: A competitive edge for local areas
By Romain BEAUME, Ingénieur des Mines, Chef du Bureau « Politiques d’innovation, de technologie » à la Direction générale de la Compétitivité de l’Industrie, des Services (DGCIS) du ministère de l’Economie, de l’Industrie, de l’Emploi, Vincent SUSPLUGAS Chef du Bureau « Politique des pôles de compétitivité » à la Direction générale de la Compétitivité de l’Industrie, des Services (DGCIS) du ministère de l’Economie, de l’Industrie et de l’Emploi
Ingénieur des Mines, Chef du Bureau « Politiques d’innovation et de technologie » à la Direction générale de la Compétitivité de l’Industrie et des Services (DGCIS) du ministère de l’Economie, de l’Industrie et de l’Emploi
In his book, In the age of the smart machine: The future of work and power , Shoshana Zuboff, a professor at MIT, has described three major stages in the computerization of our societies: automating, informating and transformating
Prospects of foreign investments in France
By Gilles LE BLANC
Professeur d’économie, Mines ParisTech
Digital networks are no longer designed in relation to virtuality alone. They directly link with a physical territory and provide tools for facilitating the “uses” made of a city. We are entering a new era of an informational ecology in public places
Nanoproducts: Applications and issues
By Ilarion PAVEL Ingénieur en chef des Mines (ilarion.pavel@mines.org)
Ingénieur en chef des Mines
As a universal network connecting all cybernauts at the planetary level, cyberspace enables users to break free of the boundaries imposed by a territory and by the body and, too, from the weight of institutions and governments.