Question: Which countries governments provided state funding to new industries?
About the article "Industrial Revolution", section "Continental Europe".

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Industrialisation beyond Great Britain.
Continental Europe.
The Industrial Revolution on Continental Europe came a little later than in Great Britain.
In many industries, this involved the application of technology developed in Britain in new places.
Often the technology was purchased from Britain or British engineers and entrepreneurs moved abroad in search of new opportunities.
By 1809 part of the Ruhr Valley in Westphalia was called 'Miniature England' because of its similarities to the industrial areas of England.
The German, Russian and Belgian governments all provided state funding to the new industries.
In some cases (such as iron), the different availability of resources locally meant that only some aspects of the British technology were adopted.
A second new feature of the Cotonou Agreement relates to the participation of non-state actors and local governments in development cooperation.
They are now considered complementary actors to central governments who traditionally have been the key actors of cooperation between the EU and the ACP countries.
Although ACP governments continue to be responsible for determining their own development strategy, non-state actors and local authorities are now involved being consulted with regard to its formulation.
They are furthermore provided with access to financial resources and involved in implementation.
They also receive capacity building support.
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) operates within the framework of the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement with a mission to "strengthen policy and institutional capacity development and information and communication management capacities of ACP agricultural and rural development organisations".
This it does, in part, through its magazine "Spore", which is widely circulated in ACP states.
The Cotonou Agreement focuses especially on the private sector as an instrument for sustainable economic development.
A new comprehensive programme has been introduced in Cotonou in order to support the private sectors of the ACP countries with new tools such as access to funding via the European Investment Bank (EIB). 
Public housing in Australia is usually provided by departments of state and territory governments.
Australian public housing operates within the framework of the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement, by which funding for public housing is provided by both federal and state governments.
According to the 2006 census, Australia's public housing stock consisted of some 304,000 dwellings out of a total housing stock of more than 7.1 million dwellings. 
While Australian Governments have provided substantial funding for the upgrading of roads, since the 1920s, they have not regularly funded investment in railways except for its own railway, the Commonwealth Railways, later the Australian National Railways Commission, which was privatised in 1997.
They have considered the funding of railways owned by State Government to be a State responsibility.
Nevertheless, Australian governments have made loans to the states for gauge standardisation projects from the 1920s to the 1970s.
From the 1970s to 1996, the Australian Government has provided some grant funding to the States for rail projects, particularly the Keating Government's One Nation program, announced in 1992, which was notable for standardising the Adelaide to Melbourne line in 1995.
Significant government funding was also made available for the Alice Springs to Darwin Railway, opened in 2004.
Substantial funding is now being made available for freight railways through the Australian Rail Track Corporation and the AusLink land transport funding program. 
As with all monopolies, a monopolist who has gained his position through natural monopoly effects may engage in behaviour that abuses his market position, which often leads to calls from consumers for government regulation.
Government regulation may also come about at the request of a business hoping to enter a market otherwise dominated by a natural monopoly.
Common arguments in favor of regulation include the desire to limit a company's potentially abusive or unfair market power, facilitate competition, promote investment or system expansion, or stabilize markets.
In general, though, regulation occurs when the government believes that the operator, left to his own devices, would behave in a way that is contrary to the public interest.
In some countries an early solution to this perceived problem was government provision of, for example, a utility service.
However, this approach raised its own problems.
Some governments used the state-provided utility services as a source of cash flow for funding other government activities, or as a means of obtaining hard currency.
These and other consequences of state provision of services often resulted in inefficiency and poor service quality.
As a result, governments began to seek other solutions, namely regulation and providing services on a commercial basis, often through private participation.
Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism generally argue that permanent natural monopolies are merely theoretical.
Economists from the Austrian school claim that governments take ownership of the means of production in certain industries and ban competition under the false pretense that they are natural monopolies.