This paper reviews the evidence on emerging thinking and new trends in the sphere of
industrial policy. The paper adopts a broad and inclusive definition of industrial policy, and …

Executive summary The present study reviews a diverse set of countries with the most
successful industrial policy experiences since the Second World War–namely, the US …

Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care
robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for eldercare …

Industrial clusters have attracted considerable attention worldwide for their expected
contribution to regional innovation. Recently, policymakers in various countries have …

Artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize production process by improving energy
efficiency, reducing costs, and developing green technology. Among the most important …

Computer technology is currently experiencing important developments by generating new
tools and methods with increasing capacities. This suggests that a growing share of …

International and local policymakers have repeatedly encouraged the development of
clusters—a dense geographic concentration of interconnected businesses—to boost …

Industrial policy, broadly defined, covers a multitude of policy instruments and approaches.
While there has been a recent revival of interest in industrial policy around the world …

Among a vast literature on the Asian economies, the book proposes a distinctive approach,
inspired by régulation theory, to understand the current transformations of the Asian …

In the 1980s the performance of Japan's economy was an international success story, and
led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today …