For the last 20 years, the world economy has evolved at great speed. Every good, capital asset, knowledge is mobile and induces more competition. Innovate in commodities is a complex process which requires more cooperation. For innovating in the Knowledge Economy, firms must create nowadays “win win situations” among individuals in creating networks. The networks are thus useful nowadays for firms to imagine new innovative strategies. The building of networks authorizes the interactions between the agents, the environment and the institutions. Thinking the interdependences of the agents and institutions are not new for the evolutionary theory (Veblen, 1925 and Common, 1931) but nowadays, the institutions must be more flexible than before for helping agents to adapt to the Knowledge Economy. On the basis of the role of meso networks, we propose to the firms and the countries exporting industrial goods on the world markets, a new long run specialization and a new short run competitiveness which will promote a greater efficiency and equity around the world. Within the innovative networks, we analyze the role of two different actors: the “economic leader” who has a long run analysis and the “go-between leader” who knows how to diffuse the “useful information” to the actors in helping them to innovate in new products, services, or processes.
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