This book links two important aspects of European economic development in the past thirty years: The pace of technical and management innovation and the growing significance of technical and business consultancy.

Introduction: Knowledge-Intensive Services, Consultancy and InnovationPart I: Business Consultancy Growth and Innovation: A European Perspective1. Innovation and the Growth of Business Consultancy: Parallel but Associated Trends?2. European Consultancy Growth: Nature, Causes and Consequences3. How May Consultancies be InnovativePart II: National and Regional Variations in Knowledge-Intensive Service Development4. France: Knowledge-Intensive Service and Territorial innovative Dynamics5. Germany: Knowledge Intensive Services in a Manufacturing-Led Economy6. The Netherlands: Knowledge-Intensive Service Markets in a Trade-Based Economy7. The United Kingdom: Knowledge-Intensive Services in a Restructuring Economy8. Italy: Knowledge-Intensive Services and Policies for the North and South9. Greece: Knowledge-Intensive Services and Economic Development10. Portugal: Knowledge-Intensive Services and Modernisation11. Spain: Knowledge-Intensive Services: a Paradigm of Economic Change12. Knowledge-Intensive Services: The Diversity of Processes and Policies