IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-03982312.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The political economy of French industrial policymaking

Author

Listed:
  • Samuel Klebaner

    (CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord - LABEX ICCA - UP13 - Université Paris 13 - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

  • Anaïs Voy-Gillis

    (CRAG - Centre de recherches et d'analyses géopolitiques - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse how the current design and governance of French industrial policy is impeding technical and economic change. Industrial policy needs to address the “grand challenges” such as climate change by driving radically new economic and technical development. After analysing recent trends and the various stakeholders and levels involved in industrial policymaking in France, we show how the complexity; the conflicts between targets, instruments and stakeholders and the capture of industrial policymaking lead to inertia rather than change. The participation of incumbents at every stage of the policymaking reinforces short-term business strategies rather than creating a radical new path. We consider that a multi-level industrial democracy could enable the conditions of change to ensure sustainable industrial development. This requires reviewing the roles of each stakeholder, the way that funds are allocated, and how the implementation of these public policies is monitored.
(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

Suggested Citation

  • Samuel Klebaner & Anaïs Voy-Gillis, 2022. "The political economy of French industrial policymaking," Post-Print hal-03982312, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03982312
    DOI: 10.1007/s43253-022-00089-0
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Other versions of this item:

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mario Pianta & Matteo Lucchese & Leopoldo Nascia, 2020. "The policy space for a novel industrial policy in Europe," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 29(3), pages 779-795.
    2. Mariana Mazzucato, 2018. "Mission-oriented innovation policies: challenges and opportunities," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 27(5), pages 803-815.
    3. C. Midler & Bernard Jullien & Yannick Lung, 2017. "Rethinking innovation and design for emerging markets: Inside the renault KWID project," Post-Print hal-02482227, HAL.
    4. Mattia Guerini & Sarah Guillou & Lionel Nesta & Xavier Ragot & Evens Salies, 2018. "Impôt sur les sociétés : état des lieux et effets différenciés de la réforme," Post-Print hal-02314753, HAL.
    5. Nitzan, Jonathan & Bichler, Shimshon, 2009. "Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder," EconStor Books, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 157973, July.
    6. Bruno Amable & Lilas Demmou & Ivan Ledezma, 2009. "The Lisbon strategy and structural reforms in Europe," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 15(1), pages 33-52, February.
    7. Claudius Gräbner & Philipp Heimberger & Jakob Kapeller, 2020. "Pandemic pushes polarisation: the Corona crisis and macroeconomic divergence in the Eurozone," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 47(3), pages 425-438, September.
    8. Bulfone, Fabio & Ergen, Timur & Kalaitzake, Manolis, 2022. "No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality," MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/2, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
    9. repec:hal:spmain:info:hdl:2441/4mvajpje7483pbfbk1h78i6r1t is not listed on IDEAS
    10. Mattia Guerini & Sarah Guillou & Lionel Nesta & Xavier Ragot & Evens Salies, 2018. "Impôt sur les sociétés : état des lieux et effets différenciés de la réforme," Post-Print hal-02314753, HAL.
    11. Ha‐Joon Chang & Antonio Andreoni, 2020. "Industrial Policy in the 21st Century," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 51(2), pages 324-351, March.
    12. Samuel Klebaner, 2022. "Trade unions facing a French industrial policy: The emergence of a medical imaging filière," Post-Print hal-03982319, HAL.
    13. Malerba, Franco, 2002. "Sectoral systems of innovation and production," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 247-264, February.
    14. Reda Cherif & Fuad Hasanov, 2019. "The Return of the Policy That Shall Not Be Named: Principles of Industrial Policy," IMF Working Papers 2019/074, International Monetary Fund.
    15. William Lazonick & Mariana Mazzucato, 2013. "The risk-reward nexus in the innovation-inequality relationship: who takes the risks? Who gets the rewards ?," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 22(4), pages 1093-1128, August.
    16. Pierre-André Buigues & Khalid Sekkat, 2011. "Public Subsidies to Business: An International Comparison," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 11(1), pages 1-24, March.
    17. Aziza Garsaa & Nadine Levratto, 2015. "Do labor tax rebates facilitate firm growth? An empirical study on French establishments in the manufacturing industry, 2004–2011," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 45(3), pages 613-641, October.
    18. repec:dau:papers:123456789/6926 is not listed on IDEAS
    19. Karl Aiginger & Dani Rodrik, 2020. "Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 189-207, June.
    20. Emanuele Teti & Leonella Gori & Veronica Magnanini, 2021. "Shareholders’ greed and corporate value growth [Does the pecking order hypothesis explain the dividend payout ratios of firms in the UK?]," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 30(4), pages 868-883.
    21. Mariana Mazzucato & Mario Cimoli & Giovanni Dosi & Joseph Stiglitz & Michael Landesmann & Mario Pianta & Rainer Walz & Tim Page, 2015. "Which Industrial Policy Does Europe Need?," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 50(3), pages 120-155, May.
    22. Pierre-André Buigues & Elie Cohen, 2020. "The Failure of French Industrial Policy," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 249-277, June.
    23. Foray, D. & Mowery, D.C. & Nelson, R.R., 2012. "Public R&D and social challenges: What lessons from mission R&D programs?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(10), pages 1697-1702.
    24. Andreoni, Antonio & Chang, Ha-Joon, 2019. "The political economy of industrial policy: Structural interdependencies, policy alignment and conflict management," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 136-150.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ioanna Kastelli & Lukasz Mamica & Keun Lee, 2023. "New perspectives and issues in industrial policy for sustainable development: from developmental and entrepreneurial to environmental state," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 4(1), pages 1-25, April.
    2. Ferrannini, Andrea & Barbieri, Elisa & Biggeri, Mario & Di Tommaso, Marco R., 2021. "Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    3. Di Tommaso, Marco R. & Prodi, Elena & Pollio, Chiara & Barbieri, Elisa, 2023. "Conceptualizing and measuring “industry resilience”: Composite indicators for postshock industrial policy decision-making," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    4. Nomaler, Önder & Spinola, Danilo & Verspagen, Bart, 2021. "Demand-led industrialisation policy in a dual-sector small balance of payments constrained economy," MERIT Working Papers 2021-038, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    5. Amélie Barbier-Gauchard & Meixing Dai & Claire Mainguy & Jamel Saadaoui & Moïse Sidiropoulos & Isabelle Terraz & Jamel Trabelsi, 2021. "Towards a more resilient European Union after the COVID-19 crisis," Eurasian Economic Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 11(2), pages 321-348, June.
    6. Laplane, Andrea & Mazzucato, Mariana, 2020. "Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(S).
    7. Dosi, Giovanni & Lamperti, Francesco & Mazzucato, Mariana & Napoletano, Mauro & Roventini, Andrea, 2023. "Mission-oriented policies and the “Entrepreneurial State” at work: An agent-based exploration," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    8. Matt Andrews & Peter Harrington, 2023. "Facilitating learning and discovery-oriented industrial policy in Albania," CID Working Papers 431, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    9. Diane Coyle & Adam Muhtar, 2021. "UK’s Industrial Policy: Learning from the past?," Insight Papers 002, The Productivity Institute.
    10. Amélie Barbier-Gauchard & Meixing Dai & Claire Mainguy & Jamel Saadaoui & Moïse Sidiropoulos & Isabelle Terraz & Jamel Trabelsi, 2020. "Towards a more resilient European Union after the COVID-19 crisis," Working Papers hal-03008144, HAL.
    11. Győrffy, Dóra, 2023. "Iparpolitika és akkumulátorgyártás Magyarországon és Svédországban [Industrial Policy and EV Battery Manufacturing in Hungary and Sweden]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(3), pages 245-273.
    12. repec:hal:spmain:info:hdl:2441/401t6job098n79ch91o9giov9d is not listed on IDEAS
    13. Dario Guarascio & Jelena Reljic & Giacomo Cucignatto & Giuseppe Celi & Annamaria Simonazzi, 2023. "Between a rock and a hard place. Long-term drivers of EU structural vulnerability," Working Papers in Public Economics 237, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Economics and Law.
    14. Simone Tagliapietra & Reinhilde Veugelers, 2021. "Fostering the Industrial Component of the European Green Deal: Key Principles and Policy Options," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 56(6), pages 305-310, November.
    15. Mazzucato, Mariana & Robinson, Douglas K.R., 2018. "Co-creating and directing Innovation Ecosystems? NASA's changing approach to public-private partnerships in low-earth orbit," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 166-177.
    16. Verónica Robert & Gabriel Yoguel, 2022. "Exploration of trending concepts in innovation policy," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 259-292, July.
    17. Wang, Yufei & Liao, Zhongju, 2023. "Functional industrial policy mechanism under natural resource conflict: A case study on the Chinese new energy vehicle industry," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    18. Janssen, Matthijs J. & Abbasiharofteh, Milad, 2022. "Boundary spanning R&D collaboration: Key enabling technologies and missions as alleviators of proximity effects?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 180(C).
    19. Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini & Emmanuele Russo, 2020. "Public Policies And The Art Of Catching Up," Working Papers hal-03242369, HAL.
    20. Alje van Dam & Koen Frenken, 2020. "Vertical vs. Horizontal Policy in a Capabilities Model of Economic Development," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 2037, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Aug 2020.
    21. Ha-Joon Chang & Antonio Andreoni, 2021. "Bringing Production Back into Development: An introduction," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 33(2), pages 165-178, April.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03982312. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.