Used by economic geographers in a variety of contexts to refer to the particular local or regional business or entrepreneurial climate or innovate atmosphere. "The milieu is essentially a context for development, which empowers and guides innovative agents to be able to innovate and coordinate with other innovative agents. The milieu is something like a territorial version of what (...) Gronnavetter labelled the 'embeddedness' of social and economic processes." [M.Storper "The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later" in: European Urban and Regional Studies, 1995