manufacturing

The report from the National Governors Association examines the state of manufacturing in the U.S., the impact of productivity and global competition on manufacturing jobs, and the prospects for growth.

The report presents data and analyses that The Science and Technology Policy Institute provided to the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology subcommittee focusing on the information technology sector generally and on computer hardware and semiconductor manufacturing specifically.

The authors analyze the influence of economic geography on the cost structure of manufacturing firms by firm size for eight industry sectors in India. Findings indicate that industrial diversity is the only economic geography variable that has a significant, consistent, and substantial cost-reducing effect for firms, particularly small firms.

The authors examine the dimensions of China’s competitive threat in the 1990s, benchmarking competitive performance by technology and market, and finds that market share losses are so far mainly in low technology products, with Japan being the most vulnerable market. They analyse market share changes and highlight product groups that are directly or indirectly exposed to a competitive threat.

Using entropy indices and associated bootstrap tests, the authors describe the distribution of economic sectors across Western European regions over the 1975-2000 period. It is found that manufacturing has become gradually more concentrated, although the locational bias towards central regions has become weaker.

This paper aims at exploring and analysing the trade-location relationship in candidate countries during the 1990s. Two empirical evidences are provided: current trends in spatial organisation of manufacturing production and the role played by the economic integration process with
the EU in partially or totally shaping such patterns.

This paper examines the relationship between agglomeration economies and regional productivity in the manufacturing sector in Finland. The results find in favour of regional specialisation more than diversification even if some differences can be seen between the manufacturing sub-sectors.

The paper analyses micro-level data from the U.S. and European semiconductor manufacturers. In particular, the authors focus on the plants undertaking the wafer manufacturing processes.

The paper analyses micro-level data from the U.S. and European semiconductor manufacturers. In particular, the authors focus on the plants undertaking the wafer manufacturing processes.

In this paper, the author takes a sensible approach to revitalizing American manufacturing by focusing on overcoming inefficiencies in the development of manufacturing. He states that this approach to revitalizing manufacturing can best be implemented through federal efforts to encourage and support state and local economic development policies that help enhance manufacturing productivity.