The 25th Annual EAEPE Conference 2013 will be held at Université Paris Nord (University of Paris 13) on 7-9 November, and will be located in a renovated industrial site in Bobigny, a vibrant north-eastern suburb of Paris. The conference theme will focus on the state and future of industries in Europe, with a special emphasis on policy. For decades, deindustrialisation has been a major concern in many OECD countries. The global economic crisis has certainly made the situation even more critical. At the same time, there is a revival of industrial policy debates in a context where waves of technical progress are expected to promote the emergence of new industries, boosting employment and preserving the environment. Governments, when they do not see debt-reduction and austerity as the only way to emerge from the current crisis, are trying to design, in more or less cooperative ways, policies to gain competitive advantages in the evolving international division of labour. The 25th Annual EAEPE Conference 2013 will be a platform for theexchange of ideas and results from both theoretical and empirical research oninstitutional change and policy design at all levels of implementation. It will echo and feed the current debates on possible ways of promoting a new future for industries.