The recent decline in American manufacturing probably reflects long-run problems. A sensible approach to revitalizing American manufacturing would focus on overcoming inefficiencies in the development of manufacturing, such as problems in small- and medium-sized manufacturers getting information...

A strategy to achieve the competitive insertion of a country in the international markets should take into account two fundamental aspects: a) Capacity to generate a transformation in the productive structure of a country and b) Adaptation to changes in the world demand. The first aspect allows...

The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering firm in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for and the acquisitions of assets undertaken by ABB in Wroclaw, Poland and...

This paper provides new evidence that state policies play a role in the location of industry. The paper classifies a state as pro-business if it has a right-to-work law and anti-business if it does not. The paper finds that, on average, there is a large, abrupt increase in manufacturing activity...

This paper presents an overview of fifty years of industrial policy in the Netherlands and discusses the current legitimacy of historic motives. This paper is based on a five year research project in which a committee of the Prof. Mr. B.M. Teldersstichting (the scientific bureau of the Dutch...

This article appeals to Kaldor-Verdoorn’s laws to observe the evolution of industry in Argentina from 1945 to 2002. It observes the industries’ ability to be the “engine of the economy”, the increasing return rate, and the productivity gains. The “cumulative causation” model was...

This paper employs the most recent Input Output tables to discuss the Italian lockdown after the COVID-19 epidemics. We define “basic activities” and derive a ranking of industries which more intensively contribute to them. Confronting our results with the choices of the Italian government,...

Regional countable models represent a traditional method of evaluating the longterm economic effects of transport infrastructure projects. The countable model of economic geography for municipal administrations of the Russian Federation developed by the experts of the Institute of Sectoral...

This study focuses on the demand sector of smart factories, especially policies related to the introduction of smart factories by small and medium sized manufacturers. As will be explained later, discussions focusing on SMEs are important because the gap in capacity and resources between large...

This study uses nested logit to estimate the influence of industrial incentives on the location of manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican laws grant generous tax exemptions and provide other incentives for investments in less-developed, peripheral regions of the island. Focusing on...