Inward Investment

Inward investment can be broadly defined as the process by which companies based outside a particular geographical area invest in economic activities within that area. It has been one of the most prominent components of UK national and regional industrial strategies in the 1980s and 1990s. For much of the 1980s, the UK had little competition from other European locations apart from Ireland, but the 1990s saw nearly all European nations following the UK and competing vigorously for inward investment in a changing market place.

This volume provides an up-to-date guide and overview to the literature. It examines the issues in the UK context, but is also relevant to a wider European audience. The guide offers practical advice to inward agencies, investment training and enterprise councils, and the economic development departments of councils and private sector developers.

Contents include:
* management of the inward investment process,
* locational requirements of inward investors,
* trends in investment by foreign firms,
* corporate strategies affecting inward investment, and
* the UK regional impact of inward investment.