Mazzucato, M;
Onida, F;
Viesti, G;
(2016)
Industrial policies in Europe: an introduction.
Special issue of Politica economica - Journal of Economic Policy
, 32
(2)
pp. 167-178.
10.1429/83963.
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Abstract
As guest editors of this Special Issue of PE/JEP we have selected a small number of rather detailed assessment of contemporary history of domestic industrial policies in the international context. The four papers included in this Special Issue can be seen as three case studies of “sectoral” innovation policies (broad band, wind energy, biotechnology) with a strong emphasis on country institutional features and policy instruments, together with one “horizontal” case of industrial policy in a specific country context (innovative startups in Italy). The heterogeneous theoretical background (industrial organization, evolutionary theory of the firm, economics of innovation, development) provides a somewhat unifying hidden thread of these case studies, without becoming a subject of analysis per se. This approach has been our intentional editorial choice and we are fully aware of its limitations. After very short non-technical summaries of the four papers (Section 1) we try to present a rather synthetic assessment of our personal views (largely shared among us even with partial minor disagreements) about the increasingly hot debate on the nature, limitations and desirable perspectives of industrial policy today. We argue for a non-ideological forward-looking role of governments as active players in helping domestic entrepreneurial resources not only to fully exploit inherited comparative advantages but also to face structural uncertainties and discover own potential competitive advantages in a rapidly changing international context (Section 2).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Industrial policies in Europe: an introduction |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1429/83963 |
| Publisher version: | https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1429/83963 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046016 |
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