manufacturing

This study analyzes the motives and results of outsourcing. In most cases, R&D outsourcing is driven by knowledge acquisition, but increasing R&D capacity and increasing flexibility are also important motives.

This study analyzes the extent of outsourcing in Finnish manufacturing. Differentiating between functions and regions, the offshore outsourcing concerns mainly production activities, and to a lesser extent R&D.

This paper studies the persistence of innovation and the dynamics of innovation output in Dutch manufacturing using firm data from three waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS), pertaining to the periods 1994-1996, 1996-1998, and 1998-2000.

The survey includes 263 plants that reported employment of 44,834 jobs in 2005, up 44% from 2003. These jobs support another 79,356 jobs as a result of purchases by industry employees and companies. The 124,190 direct and indirect jobs generated a payroll of $4.8 billion in 2005.

This report is an update to the 2003 report, "Securing America’s Future: The Case for a Strong Manufacturing Base." It examines whether the threats to the U.S. manufacturing base identified in the report have heightened since that report was published. With fewer young people choosing manufacturing as a career, and increased global competition, U.S. manufacturing innovation is at risk, the report finds.

This paper presents job creation and destruction data from 1972-1998 based on the Longitudinal Research Database. The authors provide a rich array of employer
characteristics including industry, size, business age, ownership structure, location and wage structure.

The authors use a point-pattern methodology to explore the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries. In particular, they consider the location of entrants and exiters vs. continuing establishments, domestic- vs. foreign-owned, large vs. small, and affiliated vs. independent. Also examined is co-localisation between vertically-linked industries.

This University of Colorado report argues that Colorado could become a nanotechnology powerhouse by doubling the number of companies and boosting the number of employees involved in the industry in the next three years. The authors believe that by increasing the number of companies to 150, and the number of local nanotech workers to 400, Colorado could rank among the top ten nanotech states.

This article lays the theoretical foundation for R&D-manufacturing co-location. The authors provide a taxonomy of factors that influence the decision of companies to co-locate their manufacturing and R&D functions.

This paper studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data from a recent survey. the author obtains TFP measures by making use of firm-specific deflators for output and inputs.