Manufacturing and Workforce Partnerships
Renewing American innovation in a more challenging global economy must begin with a strategy for investing in American students and workers to contribute and benefit from the 21st century innovation economy
Resilience has not been a major factor in organizing the manufacturing economy in recent decades as U.S. firms, driven by considerations of market efficiency, made massive investments in distributed production, notably in China. Restructuring supply chains from the ideal of “just in time” to “just in case” calls for greater investment in manufacturing innovation, and in re-shoring some of the nation’s high-tech manufacturing capabilities. It also calls for renewing the ecosystems that sustain domestic manufacturing. For this new challenge to be met, firms will require workers with greater proficiency in literacy and numeracy, as well as technical and problem-solving skills.
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Commentary by Sujai Shivakumar — October 25, 2022

Reshoring Semiconductor Manufacturing: Addressing the Workforce Challenge
Report by Sujai Shivakumar , Charles Wessner , and Thomas Howell — October 6, 2022

Renew SBIR, Just Defend the Recipients against China
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Old Is New: Making Innovation Work for Everyone
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Can Semiconductor Reshoring Prime a U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance?
Commentary by Sujai Shivakumar , Charles Wessner , and Tom Howell — September 1, 2022

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Blog Post — July 25, 2022

RAI Explainer: the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Blog Post by Gabrielle Athanasia — July 8, 2022

Reshoring Semiconductors with the Chips Act: Key Lessons from Albany, New York
Commentary by Charles Wessner and Thomas R. Howell — June 2, 2022

Building Skills for National Security and Competitiveness: Best Practice from Indiana
Event by Sujai Shivakumar — May 12, 2022

The FABS Act: An Essential Component for Incentivizing Semiconductor Manufacturing in the United States?
Blog Post by Gregory Arcuri — February 9, 2022
