Abstract

The editorial traces the experience matured so far in monographic volumes of our journal, in order to identify new paths for its development. The idea of including specific parts hosting the scientific debate on relevant issues drew its inspiration from the need to follow two main patterns of change. The first is what we may call "new forms of public intervention in the economy" concerning the rise of liberalisation policies and economic regulation. The second relates to the "globalisation and European market creation" issue which has gradually redefined economic conditions and competitiveness relations inside and outside the EU. These topics surely deserve further research. Nonetheless, in view both of recent events and of the enduring crisis of our economic system, there is a growing need to reconsider the role of traditional industrial policies in order to identify a "new industrial policy" that could be reconciled with the paradigms of economic regulation and competition.