How to bring back US manufacturing jobs

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By Gavin van Marle

21/03/2012

And it’s not by trying to entice Apple home. That’s the first lesson in this excellently argued account of the progress and nature of global supply chains. Instead, the country should look to build up new “innovation ecosystems”. That might sound like management-speak, but US government investment in the advanced battery industry is one example of how to develop industrial policy.

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