Sunday, February 17, 2013
Room 309 (Hynes Convention Center)
After WWW2, the US reorganized its innovation system for a comparative advantage in technology, and then led the 20th century innovation waves. The underlying assumption was “innovate here/produce here” – the US would realize gains from all stages of the innovation process from discovery through implementation. Now, with a global manufacturing restructuring, the US faces dual challenges of “innovate here/produce there” and recently “produce there/innovate there.” Yet manufacturing is key to the innovation system