Introduction special issue Innovations, Spaces and Territories.

Summary Among its many effects, the Covid-19 crisis, which is unfolding as we close this special issue, has raised fundamental questions for many companies. When many companies have been able to switch to remote forms of work, what is at stake in proximity? While the crisis has highlighted the maturity of infrastructures and tools for remote collaborative work, after the importance taken by open innovation platforms, on a global scale, we can wonder about the issues associated with the geographical anchoring and (co-)location of teams that contribute to innovation processes. In a world in which digital technology and information technology facilitate and amplify exchanges, what place is left for the physical and material dimension of location? Is it still relevant to consider territory, space, place?