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Kari Reidy: Growing Your Lemonade Stand: Exporting Drives Sales and Innovation

Kari Reidy National Institute Of Standards And Technology
September 19, 2014
Remember how much fun it was opening your own lemonade stand?
 

You would go to the supermarket with your parents to buy the ingredients, rush home to the kitchen with your siblings to mix everything up, create your own lemonade stand sign, and then head out to the end of your driveway / sidewalk to offer neighbors a cup of watered-down lemonade for 25 cents. While 25 cents per cup wasn’t the greatest profit margin, you still felt the most successful entrepreneur in the world!
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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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Getting Proactive Against Corruption — Q&A with Leslie Benton

Leslie Benton Create Org
September 09, 2014
The global economy has sparked unprecedented efficiency and innovation, but the age-old problem of corruption has also flourished along global supply chains — particularly those that traverse markets with weak rule of law.
 

It is a problem that undermines the functioning of the free market and hinders economic development where it is most needed, says Leslie Benton, vice president of advocacy and stakeholder engagement at the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe.org).

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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3D-Printed Exoskeleton Giving People with Disabilities Another Chance

July 31, 2014
When Amanda Boxtel, executive director of the Bridging Bionics Foundation, crushed her vertebrae in a skiing accident 22 years ago, she had to get used to life permanently confined in a wheelchair.

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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Ex-Im Reauthorization is About American Jobs

Jay Timmons National Association Of Manufacturers
July 25, 2014
Manufacturers are overwhelmingly focused on the need to create jobs and grow the U.S. economy. It is incumbent upon policymakers in Washington to stay focused on this critical mission and ensure policies emanating from inside the Beltway are consistent with this goal.
In the case of the reauthorization of the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, however, thousands of businesses of all sizes in congressional districts across the nation can’t understand why Washington is threatening to let Ex-Im’s charter expire. Frankly, I don’t either.
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