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Abstract: The purpose of this article is to show that the current European Union (EU) legal framework is unnecessarily restrictive and unduly suppresses economic and developmental initiatives in many stagnating regions across Europe. More innovative industrial policies, instruments and measures should be adopted in a highly decentralized manner across the eu. Between the 'laissez-faire' and 'dirigiste' approaches, there is significant room to manoeuvre for more pro-active industrial and development policies. New forms of industrial policies could and should be reinvented and implemented across the EU - not to harm or distort competition, but rather to further enhance it. More than one form and framework exist for a Single Market and for the competition policies. Modern industrial policy presupposes high-quality public institutions with highly competent administration. It requires autonomy and accountability of the public administration to counter the pressures of various interest groups. The proposal to revive and articulate modern types of industrial policies across the EU is a call for comprehensive economic and social restructuring. The task of modern industrial policy is to organize and strengthen capabilities of restructuring in the direction of high-productivity activities.
Keywords: European industrial policy, 'old' and 'new' industrial policy, European legal constraints, regional development
Published in RUP: 21.12.2015; Views: 2329; Downloads: 56
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Keywords: povojni turizem, turizem, razvoj, inovativnost, hotelirstvo, tourism, development, innovation, hospitality
Published in RUP: 15.10.2015; Views: 2379; Downloads: 83
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Keywords: podjetništvo, financiranje, subvenije, inovativnost, ekonomska učinkovitost, finančna učinkovitost, trajnostni razvoj, subsidies, enterprise innovativeness, economic-financial efficiency of enterprises, sustainable development
Published in RUP: 14.10.2015; Views: 2606; Downloads: 77
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Abstract: In the 1860s in Trieste, the imminent opening of the Suez Canal created the conditions for reflection upon the possible advantages of the transformation of the Mediterranean Sea from a closed basin into a transit sea and what this transformation could bring to the local economy. In general, two perspectives emerged among the local intellectual elite: one that was substantially conservative and "legitimist" and tied to the valorisation of institutional continuity based on the Habsburg nexus, advocated by Pietro Kandler. The second view, more progressivist and "Mediterranean", advocated by Pasquale Revoltella, aimed at taking advantage of all the liberties of movement and autonomies enjoyed by the Triestine commercial class. Since then, the dichotomy between the "continental" and "Mediterranean" visions of the path that commerce in Trieste should undertake has become recurrent in reflections of the economy and politics in the town, hiding much more concrete interests and aspirations interwoven in the town's intricate social tissue
Keywords: economic development, transport revolution, maritime history, economic nationalism, irredentism, bourgeoisie
Published in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 2428; Downloads: 9
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Keywords: water resources, economic development, demography, Kvarner islands
Published in RUP: 10.07.2015; Views: 2794; Downloads: 9
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