Cover -- Industrial Policy in Europe: Theoretical perspectives and practical proposals -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Overview and redirection -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A reorientation of industrial policy?: Horizontal policies and targeting -- Part II Creating meaningful local and regional economies -- 3 Sustainabel regional development: New dimensions in policy formulation -- 4 The territorial challenge ot innovationa and endogenous regional development -- 5 Europe's advantage?: Work organisation, innovation and employment -- 6 The competitive disadvantage of England -- 7 The activation of bottom-up methodologies in a newly opened regional economy: An experience in the Oeste region of Santa Catarina, Brazil -- Part III Nurturing small firm economies -- 8 The entrepreneurial society in practice -- 9 Practicla issues of networking and co-operation -- 10 Making small firms work: Policy dimensions and the Scottish context -- 11 Industrial policy implications of competition policy failure in mergers -- Part IV Venture capital -- 12 Public policy and the development of the informal venture capital market: UK experience and lessons for Europ -- 13 The liability of small-scale investment: A simulation model of the performance of an early-stage, technology-focused, venture capital fund -- Part V Creating the infrastructure and economic environment for a dynamic, diffuse economy -- 14 Universal service, universal access and the Internet -- 15 Market structure, corporate objectives and cost efficiency -- 16 Regulating transnationals: Free markets and monitoring in Europe -- 17 Industrial strategy in the era of transnationals: Analysis and policy issues -- 18 Multinatinal enterpries investment and industrial policy -- 19 The macroeconomics of industrial strategy -- Index.