The Electronics Industry: Inward Investment versus Indigenous Development—The Policy Debate

In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 439-450

Abstract

In this paper the public policy implications of an active government strategy aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the electronics industry in Britain are examined. The author argues that as a general principle industrial policy should be both designed and applied at as low a level as possible. To achieve this a comprehensive but decentralised institutional economic development network will need to be created.