Catching up on some new reports

From Brookings:
Devashree Saha and Mark Muro, Create a Nationwide Network of Advanced Innovation Hubs
http://goo.gl/glxgN

Bruce Katz and Peter Hamp, Create a 'Race to the Shop' Competition for Advanced Manufacturing
http://goo.gl/7u6h2

Rob Atkinson and Stephen Ezell, Support the Designation of 20 U.S. 'Manufacturing Universities'
http://goo.gl/EAszu

From SSTI:
Trends in Technology-Based Economic Development: Local, State and Federal Action in 2012
http://www.ssti.org/trends.pdf

Others:
William B. Bonvillian, "Reinventing American Manufacturing: The Role of Innovation"
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/INOV_a_00142

"The tech debate blasts off (a linkfest)"
http://theleisuresociety.tumblr.com/post/39057729530/the-tech-debate-blasts-off-a-linkfest

Bloom et al. Management in America
(findings from a new Census survey)
http://www2.census.gov/ces/wp/2013/CES-WP-13-01.pdf