"The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and China owes much of its spectacular economic boom in the last decades to its being the "world's factory". Is...

Competitiveness of a country requires continuous upgrading and, sometimes, major transformation. Thailand is at the crossroad. It can no longer pursue a strategy based on low-cost advantages, but its capability achievements are still too low to become an advanced economy. This book points out...

1. The new European industrial policy : an overview -- 2. The new European oligopoly : the role of the 'European champions' -- 3. Industrial policy and 'models of capitalism' -- 4. Drawing the third side of the triangle : reshaping EU 'technology policy' -- 5. State and market in today's Europe...