Activités immatérielles et relationnelles : quels nouveaux enjeux de régulation pour les secteurs et les territoires ?

The paper aims to shed a renewed light on structural obstacles restraining growth by focusing on the dynamics of intangible and relational activities and on the possible obstacles to their own development. This leads to consider how crucial can be the role of institutional measures in overcoming such obstacles. These measures have to do with sectors and territories considered as historical outcomes in which externalities can be dealt with. They also have consequences on the way competences and borders of these sectors and territories have been defined until now. Such a process takes place in a necessity to consider governance as the new relevant logic of action.