Is there a risk of cumulative effects of industrial destruction?
We seek to determine whether or not the following risk exists: in countries where industry has started to contract, can a dynamics emerge where industry contracts more and more, for example because: Industrial skills disappear; Synergies between companies and between research and companies, and the industrial ecosystem , disappear; There are increasing returns to scale in industry, and its contraction makes it ineffective. If these mechanisms are present, the dynamics of industry is divergent: when it contracts, it then contracts even more. Looking at industrial production, employment in manufacturing industry and industrial trade balances, we see that, on the contrary, there is a restoring force: a worsened situation in industry leads to a subsequent improvement. A deterioration in industry is not irreversible.