ABSTRACT
After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and EU levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase. At the same time, IP has been a catalyst for designing economic recovery strategies at regional, national and EU levels as well as being a concerted strategy to develop new ‘clean-tech’ industries to tackle environmental challenges.
