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...

This paper provides an analysis of the action taken by Europe (the EU and the Member States) in the aftermath of the most serious economic crisis since the end of the Second World War. The European perspective, indeed, can be nothing but two-pronged (supranational and national), given the...

This paper shows that there are sound economic arguments for developing a modern industrial policy at the EU level. The rationale lies in the need to facilitate economic restructuring through strategic behaviour whenever market forces fail to do so themselves, and also in order to encourage...