The need for an industrial strategy  
   
The industry occupies a crucial position in the national production system. There are at
least four reasons why its development requires an industrial strategy to be defined:   

• The industry is a powerful factor for the structuring of the national economy.It allows the technical progress and innovation to be both spread and created.  
  
• The industry allows businesses and the nation to increase their competitiveness and negotiation power. It is the best means of integration into the world economy.  
  
• The industrialisation process not only depends on a perfect knowledge of the procedures and the benefits associated with their promotion, but also on a large set of assistance and incentive policies.  
  
• Today, this process cannot be conducted on the market alone, and certainly less on the world market which is hardly competitive and largely bears the features of an oligopoly. Nor can it be entrusted to the State alone, as the state management does not ensure optimum allocation of resources.

The remaining option aims to relaunch industrial production while still enhancing it and fully allowing it to play its role in the production system, not only as a factor for structuring of the national economy, spreading of technical progress and promotion of the innovation, but also as a means of integration into the world economy.