Browse Research and Commentary

DOE’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative Leverages Regions

May 6, 2013, Scott Andes and Mark Muro

Revving Up Manufacturing, Region by Region

April 11, 2013, Mark Muro and Jessica Lee

The Paradox of Worker Shortages at a Time of High National Unemployment

April 10, 2013, Darrell M. West

An American Future Filled with Promise

April 8, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Gen. David Petraeus

Jobs Alone Do Not Explain the Importance of Manufacturing

April 3, 2013, Scott Andes and Mark Muro

Natural Gas Liquids: The “Other” Driver of the U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Resurgence

March 2013, Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala

U.S. Productivity Growth: An Optimistic Perspective

March 29, 2013, Martin Neil Baily, James M. Manyika and Shalabh Gupta

Tax Policy and U.S. Manufacturing in a Global Economy

March 15, 2013

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Finding the ‘New’ Mexico in Querétaro

March 15, 2013, Joseph Parilla and Alan Berube

Regional Innovation Clusters Begin to Add Up

February 27, 2013, Mark Muro

Chicago’s Promise as a Manufacturing Policy Leader

February 26, 2013, Howard Wial

We don't want to promote a zero-sum competition between regions in the U.S. If we want to focus on advanced manufacturing, as we should, I think the moderately high-tech industries are a good place to start. When companies are clustered together it tends to attract the kind of skilled labor force that they need and attract the suppliers that they do business with.

February 25, 2013, Howard Wial, ChicagoBusiness.com

Locating Chicago Manufacturing: The Geography of Production in Metropolitan Chicago

February 25, 2013, Howard Wial

There is nothing wrong with moderately high-tech industries—Germany has developed a very productive and innovative manufacturing sector based on them.

February 25, 2013, Howard Wial, Chicago Sun-Times

The Hollowing-Out of Japan’s Economy: Myths, Facts and Countermeasures

February 20, 2013

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As a relatively high-cost nation, the only way the United States can regain manufacturing competitiveness is through innovation and productivity, both of which are driven by engineering capabilities that are cultivated, in part, by the nation’s institutions of higher education.

February 14, 2013, Robert D. Atkinson,

Manufacturing Hubs: What and Why?

February 13, 2013, Mark Muro and Kenan Fikri

The U.S. Must ‘Race to the Shop’ to Spur Economic Growth

February 12, 2013, Bruce Katz and Peter Hamp

The Competitiveness Gap: The True Cause of the Global Recession

February 8, 2013, Robert D. Atkinson and Stephen Ezell

Launch! Taking Colorado’s Space Economy to the Next Level

February 5, 2013

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Launch! Taking Colorado’s Space Economy to the Next Level

February 5, 2013

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Advancing Advanced Industries

February 5, 2013, Mark Muro

Washington Must Focus on Growth

January 23, 2013, Bruce Katz and Mark Muro

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States, Metro Areas Outdo Washington

January 22, 2013, Bruce Katz and Judith Rodin

Is Manufacturing "Cool" Again?

January 21, 2013, Martin Neil Baily and James M. Manyika