Industrial Development

Greg Clydesdale- This is the fourth book that Dr Clydesdale has written on economic growth and wealth creation. His first book Entrepreneurial Opportunities examined the features that make new business formation possible. In his second book Waves of Prosperity, he explains how productive capabilities have changed throughout history with a consequent change in a nation’s wealth. In his latest book, Reducing Intergenerational Ethnic Poverty, Dr Clydesdale examined how productive capabilities can be improved at the individual level. Finally, in the proposed book, Dr Clydesdale draws further on history to explore how government policy has been used to build productive capabilities.

1. Introduction 2. Silicon Valley, Trajectories and Government Policy 3. Trajectories, Competitive Advantage and Learning 4. Industrial Policy Debates 5. Policy Options 6. The Early Asian Model: Building domestic businesses 7. Capability Building for a Global Economy: Singapore and Ireland 8. Building Global Networks: New Zealand and Brazil 9. Building at the Technological Frontier 10. Creating New Knowledge: R&D and Universities 11. Entrepreneurship Policy: Learning to build new businesses 12. Place-based Policies for Growth 13. Social Capital: Building capabilities to work together 14. Human Capital and Diversity: Acquiring workers capabilities 15. Conclusion