5 Industrial Change and Local Competitive Advantage: Industrial Production Systems in Turin -- Introduction -- Company competitiveness and local competitiveness -- Towards a model of global/local connection -- The post-Fordist mesosystem -- The local value production system -- Conclusion -- 6 Sub-Contractors, Supplier Parks and Supply Chain Management: The Case of Volvo's Arendal Supplier Park -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Supplier models in different regions -- The Volvo experience -- The case of Volvo Arendal supplier park -- Function of the supplier park -- The supplier park concept and the development of a creativeenvironment for automotive-suppliers -- Conclusions -- 7 The Unresolved Question of New versus Old: Technological Change and Organisational Response in the German Chemical Industry -- Introduction -- Structural change, localised learning and the division of labour -- The German PDPV industry -- Methodology -- Organisational clusters in the PDPV industry -- Spatial proximity and the social division of labour in the PDPVindustry -- Conclusions: global positioning and regional context -- PART III: LOCALISED RESOURCES AND LOCALISED LEARNING: A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE? -- 8 Localised Knowledge, Interactive Learning and Innovation: Between Regional Networks and Global Corporations -- Introduction -- Regional clusters between globalisation and regionalisation -- The regionalisation thesis: the creation of competitiveness in regionalclusters -- Regional innovation systems - some limitations of the regionalisationthesis -- Empirical illustrations: three examples -- Regional network: the Sunnm0re region -- Technological Co-operation: The Case of Jaeren, Norway -- The electronics industry in Horten - commercialisation of 'national'research -- Conclusion -- 9 Enterprise, Power and Embeddedness: An Empirical Exploration -- Introduction