Year: 2018
Type: report
Abstract: Innovation has always been an American strength.While other nations have significantly increased their production of high-value, advanced products, the U.S. has, in recent years, often allowed its best early-stage inventions to languish in our laboratories only to see them developed and manufactured in other countries.Inventing here while other nations disproportionately benefit from new, technologybased, manufacturing jobs is untenable.Manufacturing catalyzes innovation, knowledge and economic value creation.Manufacturing USA helps industry move discoveries from the Nation's universities and research laboratories into production in the U.S. The program's institutes develop world-changing manufacturing technology and equip the U.S. manufacturing workforce with the high-value skills needed to make tomorrow's products.In fiscal year 2017, the fourteen Manufacturing USA institutes, sponsored by the Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Energy, conducted nearly 270 major applied research and development projects of high priority to broad industry sectors.The participants in, and beneficiaries of, these projects are Manufacturing USA's 1,291 members, of which 844 are manufacturing firms and 549 are small businesses.Federal support for these institutes creates a framework that allows industry and academia to work together to develop the most promising new technologies into products to be manufactured in America.The Manufacturing USA institutes act as manufacturing and innovation hubs, providing real value to U.S. industry.These hubs benefit the public by providing workforce development, improved job opportunities, and increased economic opportunity by advancing promising technologies into U.S. production, paying higher wages for U.S. workers, and delivering the products needed by the nation and the world.Working with our agency partners, we at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are excited to lead this initiative and to support all the Manufacturing USA institutes to ensure a bright future for American manufacturing.Our commitment to a strong U.S. manufacturing sector is unwavering.Our vision is nothing less than U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing.
Author: Michael F Molnar
Language: English
Topic: Innovation Policy and R&D
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2887934389