The regional policy literature has shown renewed interest in the promotion of industries with the potential to embed themselves into regional economies. Unfortunately, analysis of sectors within strategy-led documents often fails to tie the identification of key industries to any specific...

Midmore P., Munday M. and Roberts A. (2006) Assessing industry linkages using regional Input-Output tables, Regional Studies 40, 329-343. The regional policy literature has shown renewed interest in the promotion of industries with the potential to embed themselves into regional economies....