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July 13, 2005
Manufacturing and design
Faced with China's challenge to domestic manufacturers, the responses of the United States and United Kingdom contrast starkly. The U.K. is seeking a position of leadership in post-industrial manufacturing. Rather than abandoning the sector or surrounding it with protectionist barriers, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has laid out a strategy for using government to help transform it. In a guest editorial published last Friday in Manufacturing & Technology News "UK Leads; US Lags," I explore Mr. Brown's idea of reviving manufacturing through emphasis on design - and what the US could do as well. The editorial can be found at the Athena Alliance website. You can also download a PDF version.
Posted by Ken Jarboe at July 13, 2005 11:02 AM
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