@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2016.0100, TITLE={Innovation Strategies and Entrepreneurial Dynamics}, AUTHOR={}, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={1}, NUMBER={Issue 1}, YEAR={2016}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Innovation-Strategies-and-Entrepreneurial-Dynamics}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2016.0100}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={Innovation, in the industrial capitalism, is based on two pillars: mastering technology and a high level of entrepreneurship. Innovation aims to make profitable the capital invested by the entrepreneur. This link is analysed at three levels, macro (nation), meso (industrial groups, sectors, regions) and microeconomic (entrepreneurial). The evolution of the industrial capitalism may be broken down, according the major inventions, into three generations (1775-1875-1975). Each generation is divided into two stages. The extensive stage covers the transfer of inventions into techniques and production tools; the intensive stage relates to the development of “modern” consumer goods and services. The transition to the intensive stage is facilitated by ideologies promoting technical progress and new social order, in the name of modernity. Then, the entrepreneurship is idealised, for facilitating that transition. However, the typologies of entrepreneurs relativise their actual contribution to the transition towards a new industrial order, by the way of individual strategies aiming at highly variable degrees of innovation. This question is ultimately examined in terms of industrial policies: general policy of industrial and financial corporations, public policy, regional policies of technological and entrepreneurial development.}}