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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables & Figures -- Dedication -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. EXPANDING MARKETS, THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK & INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- 2. IDEOLOGY, STATE CONTROL & BRITISH INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- 3. MARKETS: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS & MICROELECTRONICS -- 4. TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- 5. COMPUTERS -- 6. MICROELECTRONICS -- 7. COMPARATIVE STRATEGIES AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- 8. CONCLUSION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index

Governments around the world are deeply divided about the proper role of industrial policy, with some politicians arguing for hands-off governance and others supporting government intervention to promote ""national champions""-- firms that receive government support for both political and economic reasons. In this volume, prominent economists present the pros and cons of government support for national champions. The contributors use the rigor of economic models in their studies, offering a quantitative perspective that complements and extends existing qualitative studies, and focus on issues emerging from the European Union's substantial degree of market integration. - Many arguments in favor of champions-promoting policies are made in a dynamic context, so the book first presents chapters that take a dynamic economy view, then presents chapters that examine the political economy of the decision process, and finally, offers ""classical"" static equilibrium arguments. The richness of the different models provides a deeper understanding of industrial policy than could any model alone. What becomes clear from these different perspectives nevertheless is that it is difficult to make a general case in favor of policies promoting national champions on purely economic grounds and that these policies are best understood in political terms.

This report reviews the Korean catching up and it analyzes the recent reforms which have been put in place to address the territorial dimension in the design and implementation of industrial policies, with a view to share knowledge and policy experience with emerging and developing economies. Korea is a well known success case, but less is known about the efforts and reforms introduced to factor in the territorial dimension in its national development strategy. . The report identifies the advances and challenges of the Korean approach to regional development. Results show that beside the