1. PhD Thesis
La fabrique des innovations techno-créatives. Le concept des circulations préférentielles comme nouvel outil de gestion. Thèse de doctorat en sciences de gestion et du management, soutenue publiquement en 2022 à l’Université d'Angers. https://theses.fr/2022ANGE0087
2. Peer-reviewed research articles
Capron, E. & Suire, R. (2025). Zooming-in: Expanding the micro-geographic perspective in economic geography. Progress in Economic Geography, 3(2), 100048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2025.100048
Capron, E. & Suire, R. (2025). Revealing preferential circulation—how the use of places serves localized entrepreneurs’ capabilities. Journal of Economic Geography, 25(4), 469–485. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbae048
Capron, E. & Saaoud, E. (2025). Place-based affordances: theorizing the role of places in organizing creativity. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 91, pp. 227-245. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/s0733-558x20250000091025/full/html.
Capron, E. & Delacour, H. (2024). Field-Configuring Places: Unpacking the role of place in field evolution. Organization Studies, 45(11), 1669–1696. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01708406241280010
Capron, E. & Suire, R., (2024). From one place or another – place attendance as resources for innovators. M@n@gement. 27(5), 82–99. https://doi.org/10.37725/mgmt.2024.9048
Capron, E. & Sagot Duvauroux, D. (2023). Entre art et numérique - Le rôle des territoires dans le développement d’innovations techno créatives. Rivista Economia della Cultura, n°3-4, pp. 377-389. https://www.economiadellacultura.it/anno-xxxiii-2023-n-3-4/
Capron, E., Sagot-Duvauroux, D., & Suire, R. (2022). Anatomy of a techno-creative community – the role of brokers, places, and events in the emergence of projection mapping in Nantes. European Planning Studies, 30, n°9, pp. 1755-1776. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2021.1959901
Under review
Capron, E. & Turkina, E. Industry events as catalyzer for inter-path development
Working papers
Capron, E., Formilan, G., Suire, R., Cohendet, P. What a journey to the Louvre - A study of the coevolution of artistic movements and place attendances in Paris
Capron, E. & Tellier, A. From a game of chance to a game of skill: An historical study of the destigmatization process of the pinball industry.
Capron, E., Suire, R., Cohendet, P., Simon, L. How new activities emerge in regions: (re)examining the role of events and places.
Capron, E., Denos, G & Guérineau, M. Cooking for transitioning - a study of social restaurants scaling
Capron, E. & Dubois, L-E. Reused buildings and creativity.
3. Scientific book chapters
Capron, E., & Suire, R. (2025). Unpacking creative ecosystem : a place-based perspective. in Dubois, L-E., Simon, L. and Szostak, B (Eds.) De Gruyter Handbook of Creative Industries. pp. 107-122. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Ambrosino, C., Capron, E., Michel, B., Sagot-Duvauroux, D., Suire, R. (2025). Agglomération(s), in Ambrosino, C., Michel, B. and Sagot-Duvauroux, D. (Eds.) Scènes artistiques – au-delà de la ville créative. pp. 17-27. Fontaine: Presses universitaires de Grenoble.
Capron, E., Cohendet, P., Simon, L. (2025). Technological change as a driver of regional innovation capacity renewing - The case of Montreal. Handbook of Creative Regions. Forthcoming
4. Conferences
2025 34e AIMS (Lille, France) *Best paper award*
2024 40th EGOS Sub-theme: The Social Control of Organizational Deviance (Milan, Italy)
40th EGOS Sub-theme: Markets and their Spatio-Temporal Configurations (Milan, Italy)
84th AOM Annual meeting (Chicago, USA)
2022 YSI Workshop: the geography of innovation (Milan, Italy)
6th Geo Inno (Milan, Italy)
31e AIMS (Annecy, France)
2021 37th EGOS “Generating and recognizing new ideas: the problematic journey of novelty” (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Together Apart (Toronto, Canada)
Rethinking clusters (Florence, Italy)
AIMS - GT Innovation (Lyon, France)
2020 Rethinking clusters (Valencia, Spain)
Rethinking culture and creativity in the technological era (Florence, Italie)
2019 AIMS – GT Innovation (Grenoble, France)