Le plan de relance pourra-t-il sauver l’industrie française ?

The political economy of French industrial policymaking

“…In this section, we describe several instruments and their rationales to examine their internal coherence. We focus mainly on supply-side policy as it has become the main pillar of this new industrial policy (Levratto 2020 ). Due to France’s highly centralised power structure, the national scale is the main driver of industrial policy, even though some key changes have occurred at the European level.…”

“…This reduction responds to a long-standing demand from industrialists, but its effectiveness and sustainability can be challenged (Garsaa and Levratto 2015 ). In fact, the production taxes rebate adversely impacts the budgets of local authorities and, in turn, the quality of some local public services, which is nonetheless a factor for attracting foreign direct investment (Levratto 2020 ). Moreover, this reduction was applied uniformly, whereas it might have been more appropriate to target certain categories of companies.…”

The PACTE law : an opportunity for questioning the territorial « raison d’être » of firms

“…Cette crise vient requestionner la diversité des relations ou des liens entre les entreprises 3 et leurs territoires 4 . Le plan de relance a ainsi amené un débat sur la stratégie économique et industrielle française (Levratto, 2020) -avec en toile de fond la question de la relocalisation (Hyppolite, 2020). Trouver des synergies (Max-Neef, 1986) entre les enjeux socio-économiques, écologiques et géopolitiques 5 implique de concevoir des stratégies territoriales cohérentes avec les acteurs concernés, en premier chef les entreprises (Daly et Cobb, 1989).…”