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Springer EuropeS Automotive Industry On The Move Competitiveness In A Changing World 2005 Edition by Oliver Heneric Georg Licht Wolfgang Sofka
The automotive industry is a major pillar of the modern global economy and Europe is one of the key players. It has a unique role to play in Europe in - ployment manufacturing R&D transportation and investment and there are crucial challenges and opportunities ahead. We shed light on a broad range of issues - globalisation and restructuring trade and foreign direct investment (no- bly in China and Russia) innovation regulation and industry policy - and put a special focus on the new member states. While change may be inevitable progress is not. This book shall serve as a map to all stakeholders: business executives policy makers investors and scholars. th The contents originate from the 8 European Competitiveness Report 2004 p- ject of the European Commission. They document the contribution made at the Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - Centre for European Economic Resarch - in Mannheim Germany in cooperation with several external researchers. We as editors wish to mention and sincerely thank the many persons and institutions who have helped us in this effort.Special thanks go to the c- tributors: Thomas Cleff (Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Pfo- heim Germany) Stefan Lutz (then researcher at the Centre for European E- nomic Resarch Mannheim Germany) Alfred Spielkamp (Professor at the U- versity of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen Germany) and Waltraud Urban (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies in Vienna Austria). Table of contents : The Europerean Automotive Industry in a Global Context.- Competitiveness: A Market Perspective.- Innovation and Competitiveness.- The Regulation and Industrial Policy.- Challenges and Opportunities for the European Automotive Industry.- Summary and Conclusions.