Government Policy and Industrial Change

Abstract

1. Government Policy and Industrial Change: An Overview D.C. Gibbs Part I: Technological Change 2. Research and Technological Development and Regional Policy: A European Perspective J.R. Howells and D.R. Charles 3. Industrial Dynamics and the Policy Debate in the Information Technology Production Industries H.Williams, A.E. Gillespie and A.T. Thwaites Part II Economic Restructuring 4. Capital Restructuring, Government Policy and the Decentralisation of American Manufacturing B.M. and L.R. Moriarty 5. Geographic Implications of Plant Closure Legislation in the United States H.A. Stafford 6. The Politics of Industrial Decline and Restructuring in the Northern Ireland Shipbuilding Industry R.T. Harrison 7. Economic Restructuring and Services Policy J. Bachtler and P.L. Davies 8. The Relative Competitiveness of Small Manufacturing Companies in South Wales and Northern Ireland: Analysis and Policy D.M.W.N. Hitchens and P.N. O'Farrell Part III Local Policy Initiatives 9. International Comparative Aspects of Government Intervention in Local Economic Policy W.F. Lever 10. Assisting Local Economies: An Assessment of Emerging Patterns of Local Authority Economic Development J.Sellgren 11. Public Policy and Local Development: The Case of Stevenage New Town J.C. Philpott 12. Never Mind the Planning ... Feel the Initiative: Local Government Policy and Worker Co-operatives M.S. Lowe.