Manufacturing Challenges and Opportunities in Europe : Emerging Models and Policy Interventions for Local and National Growth

This paper piece sets out some of the main challenges and opportunities facing European manufacturing and the emerging models and public policy interventions which are being used to reshape local economies and to contribute to national growth. The paper sets out principles which the Italian region of Friuli could follow to revive its economy and makes recommendations applicable to the regional government and Chambers of Commerce of Udine and Pordenone.