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This book analyses the key factors determining current and future European competitiveness. It focuses in particular on the issues of internationalisation of firms and markets, the role of technology and innovation, and of continuing European integration, and deals with these issues on the level of firms, industries and countries. The competi- tiveness of the EC as a whole, relative to the USA and Japan, is also examined. Part 1 deals with internationalisation, the organisation of firms, and the activities of multinationals in Europe. Part 2 focuses on trends in technological competitiveness, and its importance in growth and trade performance. Part 3 is concerned with structural change, the integration of the European market, competition and mergers, the role of the public sector, and the role of cultural differences. The book ends by addressing the role of industrial policy in the future of the Eastern European economies. European competitiveness European competitiveness EDITED BY Kirsty S. Hughes Policy Studies Institute CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521434430 © Cambridge University Press 1993 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1993 This digitally printed version 2008 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data European competitiveness / Kirsty S. Hughes, editor, p. cm. Developed from two workshops held at and funded by the Wissenschaftszen- trum Berlin in December 1989 and in June 1991. ISBN 0 521 43443 2 1. Competition — European Economic Community countries — Congresses. 2. European Economic Community countries — Economic policy — Congresses. 3. Technological innovations - Economic aspects - European Economic Community countries - Congresses. 4. International business enterprises - European Economic Community countries - Congresses. 5. Europe 1992 - Congresses. I. Hughes, Kirsty. II. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. HF1532.92.E885 1993 338.6'048'094-dc20 92-19760 CIP ISBN 978-0-521-43443-0 hardback ISBN 978-0-521-06433-0 paperback Contents List of contributors page ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction: internationalisation, integration and 1 European competitiveness KIRSTY HUGHES Part 1 Internationalisation and corporate control 2 Location decisions of Japanese multinational firms 11 in European manufacturing industries HIDEKI YAMAWAKI 3 New forms of international involvement, 29 competition, and competitiveness: the case of Italy GIANLUIGI ALZONA, LAURA RONDI AND GIAMPAOLO VITALI 4 Strategic technology partnering and international 60 corporate strategies JOHN HAGEDOORN AND JOS SCHAKENRAAD 5 Corporate control and competitiveness: the French 87 case DANIELLE GALLIANO AND ALAIN ALCOUFFE viii Contents Part 2 Technological specialisation and international trade 6 Patterns of technological specialisation and growth 105 of innovative activities in advanced countries DANIELE ARCHIBUGI AND MARIO PIANTA 7 The role of technology, competition and skill in 133 European competitiveness KIRSTY HUGHES Part 3 European integration and structural change 8 Mergers, acquisitions and the completion of the 161 internal market NEIL KAY 9 Growth, structural change and real convergence in 181 the EC CHRISTINE OUGHTON 10 Public services and competitiveness 200 HUGH MOSLEY AND GUNTHER SCHMID 11 Culture and competitiveness 232 SHAUN HARGREAVES-HEAP 12 Industrial policy and international 259 competitiveness: the case of Eastern Europe DAVID AUDRETSCH Index 291 Contributors Alain Alcouffe, Professor of Economics, Universite de Haute Alsace Gianluigi Alzona, Professor of Industrial Organisation, Faculty of Economics, University of Turin Daniele Archibugi, Researcher, Institute for Studies on Scientific Research, National Research Council, Rome and Visiting Scholar, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge David Audretsch, Research Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin Danielle Galliano, Senior Researcher, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire d'Economie Industrielle Agroalimentaire, Ivry John Hagedoorn, Professorial Research Fellow, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, Faculty of Economics, University of Limburg Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, Lecturer in Economics, University of East Anglia Kirsty Hughes, Senior Research Fellow, Policy Studies Institute, London Neil Kay, Professor of Economics, University of Strathclyde Hugh Mosley, Research Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin Christine Oughton, Lecturer in Economics, University of Glasgow Mario Pianta, Researcher, Institute for Studies on Scientific Research, National Research Council, Rome Laura Rondi, Researcher at CERIS-CNR, Institute of Research on Firms and Development, National Research Council, Turin Jos Schakenraad, Research Fellow, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, Faculty of Economics, Uni- versity of Limburg Giinther Schmid, Director, Labour Market Policy and Employment Research Unit, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin IX x Contributors Giampaolo Vitali, Researcher at CERIS-CNR, Institute of Research on Firms and Development, National Research Council, Turin Hideki Yamawaki, Associate Professor of Economics, Catholic Univer- sity of Louvain
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