ABSTRACT
To the extent that the spread of industrialisation is dependent upon natural resources, or geographical size and location, or some other unequally distributed endowment, growth opportunities are unlikely to be equally available to all countries. It must be noted that for 'small' countries, the ease of attaining unity, whether political or economic, may facilitate decisionmaking and reduced the problem of communication. This could mean a greater rapidity in adjusting to change and in accepting the introduction of new ideas and new ways of doing things. Modern industrial technologies exhibit strong tendencies toward the geographic concentration of productive activity. The direct use of water power continued to be important in industrial location in the Atlantic coast areas of north-east United States for some time after it had begun to decline in Britain, and steam power played little part in manufacturing until the second half of the nineteenth century.
