Papers addressing the issue of innovation and the management of innovation are welcome. In particular we invite papers that engage with the fascination contemporary academics seem to have for the ‘new’: new knowledge, new products, new services, new ventures and even the ‘new economy.’

Theoretical and applied papers are invited in all areas of industrial policy, including the following: - Drivers of industrial development: large versus small firms - Spatial dimensions of industrial development - Governance and the determinants of local economic development - Policies to...