Digital factories, public action and territory : in search of living room labs, fablabs and hackerspaces (France, Belgium) ; Fabriques numériques, action publique et territoire : en quête des living labs, fablabs et hackerspaces (France, Belgique)

The starting point of this doctoral research is the observation of the incorporation of objects called "fablab", "hackerspace" or "living lab" in public policies. The increased expansion of these new "places" at the heart or at the margins of public policies is supported by semantics associated with innovation, entrepreneurship, flexibility and creativity. But beyond these rhetorical effects and their fascination, it is demonstrated that these objects of public policies constitute one of the realities of the metropolitan action, under different modalities. This thesis stays away from the lauda... Mehr ...