Introduction

This book was fashioned out of papers presented at the Warwick Conference of the European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) in December 1997 which focused on Practical Proposals for Industrial Policy in Europe. This particular meeting was the culmination of the first phase of EUNIP covering activities over the period since the launch of the project at a workshop at the University of Birmingham in September 1993. This first phase of the activity of EUNIP was funded largely by the European Union Human Capital Mobility Programme and included a PhD research programme as well as a series of workshops and conferences across Europe. EUNIP is continuing as a largely self-financed network which will sponsor an annual conference, the first being held in October 1998 at Universidad de Barcelona.