Production in the innovation economy
Title By: Locke, Richard M [Edited by] | Wellhausen, Rachel L [Edited by]
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2014.Description: xii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780262019927Subject(s): Manufacturing industries -- United States | Manufacturing industries -- Technological innovations -- United StatesDDC classification: 338.0973 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 338.0954 SE IN India's new economy : | 338.0973 DA AM American drive : | 338.0973 PI PR Producing prosperity : | 338.0973 PR OD Production in the innovation economy | 338.0973 RE IN Industrialization and the transformation of American life : | 338.1091724 IN NO Innovative institutions, public policies and private strategies for agro-enterprise development | 338.1091724 MI GR Migration, transfers and economic decision making among agricultural households |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Production in the Innovation Economy emerges from several years of interdisciplinary research at MIT on the links between manufacturing and innovation in the United States and the world economy. Authors from political science, economics, business, employment and operations research, aeronautics and astronautics, and nuclear engineering come together to explore the extent to which manufacturing is key to an innovative and vibrant economy.
Chapters include survey research on gaps in worker skill development and training; discussions of coproduction with Chinese firms and participation in complex manufacturing projects in China; analyses of constraints facing American start-up firms involved in manufacturing; proposals for a future of distributed manufacturing and a focus on product variety as a marker of innovation; and forecasts of powerful advanced manufacturing technologies on the horizon. The chapters show that although the global distribution of manufacturing is not an automatic loss for the United States, gains from the colocation of manufacturing and innovation have not disappeared. The book emphasizes public policy that encourages colocation through, for example, training programs, supplements to private capital, and interfirm cooperation in industry consortia. Such approaches can help the United States not only to maintain manufacturing capacity but also, crucially, to maximize its innovative potential.
Contributors Joyce Lawrence, Richard K. Lester, Richard M. Locke, Florian Metzler, Jonas Nahm, Paul Osterman, Elisabeth B. Reynolds, Donald B. Rosenfeld, Hiram M. Samel, Sanjay E. Sarma, Edward S. Steinfeld, Andrew Weaver, Rachel L. Wellhausen, Olivier de Weck