Management Territorial Stratégique: L'Intelligence Collective Au Service Du Développement Local

That collective intelligence contributes to the development of territories, and that it is even a condition of it, is beyond doubt for anyone today. But it's all about how. The aim here is to highlight the existence of a specific method of regulating collective action, « strategic territorial management », the characteristic of which is precisely the articulation of a series of cognitive processes in the design and implementation of territorial development projects. Strategic territorial management is an ideal-typical configuration of collective action that appears when mechanisms legally instituted impede the territorial expression of strong societal dynamics. Its emergence is closely correlated with that of sustainable development. It combines the territory as a regulatory framework, knowledge sharing as a cognitive principle, cooperation as an operational organization and governance as a decision-making process. In this context, the creation of the territory involves project based dynamics on transactional approaches and conventional logics.