Forum pancanadien sur le développement économique en Francophonie canadienne ( )1/4 Knowledge on the francophone economic area André Leclerc Economics Professor, UMCE and Chaire des caisses populaires acadiennes en gestion des coopératives, Faculty of business, U. de Moncton

Forum pancanadien sur le développement économique en Francophonie canadienne ( ) 2/4 Demonstrates well the difficulties posed by the definition and measurement of the francophone economic area  Pursue efforts on inclusion of linguistic variables in surveys Model ignores role of language as competitive capital Economic area as territorial and community concept Mother tongue versus everyday language Reactions to text by Duhamel et al.

Forum pancanadien sur le développement économique en Francophonie canadienne ( ) 3/4 Perspectives on the panel theme Economic space as seen from angle of organizations  Central role of networks in the emergence of collective intelligence (Paquet, 1996)  The place of business organizations and of economic development Economic area as seen from angle of economic models  The place of collective entrepreneurship in the development model  Cooperatives and social economy businesses

Forum pancanadien sur le développement économique en Francophonie canadienne ( ) 4/4 Economic space seen from angle of collaborations  Success of francophone entrepreneurship depends on degree of collaboration between entrepreneurs  Calling on Quebec entrepreneurs  Cooperative sector offers an interesting example