This volume explores both the theoretical basis for industrial policy in Europe and practical proposals for making industrial development happen.

Keith Cowling is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, and has published extensively on industrial economics.

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. ix
List of contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Overview and redirection
Introduction	p. 3
A reorientation of industrial policy? Horizontal policies and targeting	p. 17
Creating meaningful local and regional economies
Sustainable regional development: new dimensions in policy formulation	p. 35
The territorial challenge to innovation and endogenous regional development	p. 58
Europe's advantage? Work organisation, innovation and employment	p. 74
The competitive disadvantage of England	p. 88
The activation of bottom-up methodologies in a newly opened regional economy: an experience in the Oeste region of Santa Catarina, Brazil	p. 118
Nurturing small firm economies
The entrepreneurial society in practice	p. 133
Practical issues of networking and co-operation	p. 152
Making small firms work: policy dimensions and the Scottish context	p. 164
Industrial policy implications of competition policy failure in mergers	p. 180
Venture capital
Public policy and the development of the informal venture capital market: UK experience and lessons for Europe	p. 199
The liability of small-scale invesment: a simulation model of the performance of an early stage, technology-focused, venture capital fund	p. 224
Creating the infrastructure and economic environment for a dynamic, diffuse economy
Universal service, universal access and the Internet	p. 267
Market structure, corporate objectives and cost efficiency	p. 290
Regulating transnationals: free markets and monitoring in Europe	p. 311
Industrial strategy in the era of transnationals: analysis and policy issues	p. 326
Multinational enterprise investment and industrial policy	p. 343
The macroeconomics of industrial strategy	p. 352
Index	p. 370
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