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Mark Muro, Scott Andes and Matthew Stepp: Department of Energy’s National Labs Can Also Be Regional Hubs

Scott Andes Brookings Institution
Matthew Stepp Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
Mark Muro Brookings
September 24, 2014
The Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories are a $12.5 billion network of potentially transformative basic and applied R&D hubs located in or near many of the nation’s metropolitan areas. However, the labs are today underutilized as true economic assets.
 

How can they be better leveraged?

There are lots of ideas out there, but as we argue in a new paper, one of the most effective ways for the labs to increase their economic impact is for them to “go local” and engage more in the advanced industry ecosystems within which they reside.
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Robert D. Atkinson: Driving Economic Evolution

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
September 23, 2014
Ever wonder why innovation policy gets so little attention in Washington? One reason is the manner in which policymakers — and the economists who advise them — conceptualize the economy.
 
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Jennifer McNelly: Women in Manufacturing — An Untapped Resource

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
September 18, 2014
Janae Owens, an Environment, Health and Safety Manager at GE, is an example of an exceptional leader. Exceptional, in part, because she overcame the odds of being a woman in manufacturing and becoming the go-to EHS Specialist with GE On-site Machining and Repairs. Because of her great work, Janae was honored as a STEP Award Honoree in 2014.
 
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Margareta Drzeniek: Why U.S. Competitiveness Is on the Rise

Margareta Drzeniek World Economic Forum
September 11, 2014
For an economist whose job it is to measure countries’ success (or otherwise) in laying the foundations for long-term prosperity, the concept of green shoots for me takes on a different meaning to those most often reported in the press as harbingers of better times.
 

Increases in gross domestic product, falls in joblessness and upticks in new housing starts are of course good and welcome, but taken alone these indicators offer us little insight into how the U.S. economy will be doing in five or ten years’ time.
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Stacey Jarrett Wagner: Change May be Hard, but Failure Stinks

Stacey Jarrett Wagner The Jarrettwagner Group
September 10, 2014
Slater Mill, built in 1793 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is considered the starting point of America’s Industrial Revolution. When Slater substituted water power for human labor, manufacturing output, distribution and profits improved — and the modern manufacturing business model was ignited.
 
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Die Cast’s 3D Printing Makeover

September 08, 2014

Die casts are industry’s unsung workhorses, giving functional form to a whole host of manufactured goods — from belt buckles to car engines — that people largely take for granted.

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3-D Printing — Coming to a Store Near You?

August 18, 2014
3-D printing seems to have made everyone’s shortlist of “disruptive technologies,” but the real disruption yet to materialize is at the consumer level. The desktop production facility has enjoyed a high profile for its potential to change the face of manufacturing and retailing. Like the early iteration of a miracle technology that might be seen on Star Trek, the computer-controlled devices can build real three-dimensional things right before your eyes — no assembly plant required.
 
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This Electron Gun Builds Jet Engines

August 18, 2014

Engineers at the Italian aerospace company Avio have developed a breakthrough process for 3D printing light-weight metal blades for jet engine turbines.

Prototyping a Social Movement with a 3D Printer

Gared Jones Points Of Light
July 29, 2014
I arrived in Lagos a few weeks ago as part of Points of Light’s partnership to support GE Garages Nigeria, an initiative through which GE is using the leading edge of its business—principles of open innovation and technologies in advanced manufacturing—to spur job growth and build entrepreneurship in Nigeria.
The launch platform in which I participated was a pop-up, three-week innovation and manufacturing center where aspiring makers, entrepreneurs, and students could go to develop new skills and learn about advanced manufacturing technologies.
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World's First Plant to Print Jet Engine Nozzles in Mass Production

July 15, 2014
GE is taking mass production to a lofty new level. The company is pulling 3D printing out of the lab and installing it at the heart of the world’s first factory for printing jet engine fuel nozzles in Auburn, Ala.
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