1. Government Policy and Industrial Change: An Overview D.C. Gibbs Part 1. Technological Change 2. Research and Technological Development and Regional Policy: A European Perspective J.R. Howells and D.R. Charles 3. Industrial Dynamics and Policy Debate in the Information Technology Production Industries H. Williams, A.E. Gillespie and A.T. Thwaites Part 2. Economic Restructuring 4. Capital Restructuring, Government Policy and the Decentralization of US Manufacturing B.M and L.R. Moriarty 5. Geographic Implications of Plant Closure Legislation in the USA 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. Davis 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 3. 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 Activities 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
Biography
David Gibbs
