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Raphaël Suire

Full Professor in Strategic Management and Innovation

Nantes University /IAE / Halle 6 Ouest

Associate researcher at HEC Montréal / MOSAIC

Research fellow

LEMNA, MARSOUIN HEC Montréal / MOSAICCREM CNRS

Research fields

Entrepreneurship and cultural and creative industryEcosystem of tech innovationsDigital society published in major journals such as : Journal of Economic Geography, Industrial and Corporate Change, Regional Studies, M@n@gement, Creativity and Innovation Management, Annals of Regional Science, European Planning Studies, Computers in Human Behavior ...

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some news,

April 2025, we published with Etienne Capron a blog post on the website of Regional Studies Association : "Towards a micro-geography approach of the entrepreneurial ecosystem"

Our last paper on "AI and its non-linear diffusion into organizations" has received a paper award at DIGIT 2024 world conference

march 2025, "Au delà du mythe du garage : quelle est l'importance des lieux dans la création d'entreprise ?", The Conversation, avec Etienne Capron

jan 2025, "The Insurance market in the era of digital transitions", US Society of Actuaries Research report, with Arthur Charpentier

jan 2025, "Revealing preferential circulation : how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs' capabilities", with Etienne Capron, Journal of Economic Geography

2024, "Usages des médias sociaux et dark patterns : la question de l'addiction numérique", with Joeffrey Drouard, Marianne Lumeau, Thomas le Texier, Selin Yardimci

dec 2024, "From one place to another : places attendance as ressources for innovators", M@n@gement, with Etienne Capron

Academic positions

short CV

2023 - Elected President of Scientific Council of IAE - Nantes University2023 - (jan-feb) : visiting professor at MOSAIC / HEC Montréal2021 - Elected member of board of College of Social Sciences (Law, Economics, Management, Sociology), Nantes University2021 (jan-juil) : Adjunct Director of LEMNA, Research team of Nantes University2019 - co-editor of Revue d'Economie Industrielle2018 (dec) : visiting researcher at Innovation, Creativity and Capital Institute, University of Texas - Austin 2018 - Member of scientific board of Ecole de Design de Nantes Atlantique2017 - Member of scientific board of MARSOUIN2017 - Member of scientific board of IAE - University of Nantes2017 - Member of scientific board of LEMNA2016 - Present : Director of Master degree "Management of Innovations for transitions", IAE, University of Nantes2016 - Present : Research fellow at LEMNA, University of Nantes2016 - Present : Full Professor in Management of Innovation, IAE, University of Nantes2014, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) "Contributions to a cluster theory : networks, places, resilience and creativity", University of Paris 11 / Paris Saclay 2014 (jun-aug) : Visiting Researcher at MOSAIC / HEC Montréal2013 - Present : Associate research fellow at MOSAIC / HEC Montreal2013 (jan-sept) : Visiting Professor at MOSAIC / HEC Montreal2012 - 2016 : Research fellow at Center for Innovation, Digital Economics and Competition (IDEC Center), University of Rennes 12011-15 Elected member at National Council of University (CNU) : 052005 - Present : Research fellow at CREM - UMR CNRS, University of Rennes 12005 - 2016 : co-founder and Director of Master degree ECOTIC "Management of e-business and digital strategies", University of Rennes 12002 - Present : Research fellow at MARSOUIN (Mole Armoricain de Recherche sur la Société de l'Information et les Usages de l'Internet)2005 - 2016 : Associate professor of economics, University of Rennes 1 and European Institute of Technology (EIT-Digital)2003 - 04 : Post doc at CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg2002 - 03 : Post doc at Telecom Bretagne, Brest2002 - Phd in Economics "social networks and economic geography", University of Rennes 1

Civil positions

2013 - 2015 : Business Mentor at Booster, Rennes (accelerator for digital start-up)2010 - 2015 : Administrator and co-founder of La Cantine Numerique, Rennes (co-working space for digital activities)