David Marshall, a vice president at the Greensboro Partnership, which was formed in 2005 from the merger of Greensboro Economic Development Alliance, Action Greensboro, and the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, says the Partnership has developed a strategic plan that focuses on transforming Greater Greensboro from a traditional manufacturing-based economy to a knowledge-based economy.
Now, here comes Michael Dell, vowing to turn his company's low-cost, process-based manufacturing model directly onto both the printing and managed-services businesses.
And as China shifts from a manufacturing to knowledge-based economy, expect it to invest in "knowledge based" sectors like insurance, finance and hi-tech software firms.
So world-class, export-oriented manufacturing companies based in Japan could lead Japanese stocks higher.
The result was a five-year plan for the economy, highlighting industries that could become engines of growth: tourism, it, pharmaceuticals, export-based manufacturing, minerals and legal and accounting services.
The announcement capped an auction last week that pitted Wanxiang against Johnson Controls, NEC and others over the intellectual property and manufacturing plants of Massachusetts-based A123, which filed for bankruptcy in October.
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The increase in the value of the yuan since 2004 means that the price of oil, iron ore, copper, agricultural products and all other commodities have gone down by 25% for China-based manufacturing relative to U.S. based manufacturing.
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At this writing, it seems likely that, come next year, economic conditions in general and those of the U.S. auto-makers (not to be confused with American-based manufacturing operations of their foreign competitors) will translate into relief for Detroit.
So, in the State of the Union, I outlined a blueprint for an economy that's built to last, that has a strong foundation -- an economy based on American manufacturing and American know-how, American-made energy, skills for American workers, and the values that made America great, the values that Kathleen talked about: hard work and fair play and shared responsibility.
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Gerdau S.A . ( GGB) is a Brazilian-based steel manufacturing company.
It also helps Intel push its chips into smaller, battery powered devices and embedded systems, as Intel begins challenging companies manufacturing chips based on power-efficient ARM designs.
The hope is that pairing up researchers and businesses will hasten the development of material and component manufacturing processes for the carbon-based substance, and make it possible for graphene to find its way into products such as flexible electronics, batteries and faster processors.
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They are the skills-based jobs in manufacturing, for which there are serious shortages of people with the right training and skills.
Before last year, GM's vice president for global manufacturing was a North American-focused executive based in Detroit.
Another motor manufacturing super-power, the German-based BMW, will be joining the Williams team next year, as its engine suppliers.
Yet it puts India back in its wished-for realm of 9% growth, and it is based on strong growth in job-creating manufacturing, which increased by 12.4%.
He spoke of "three proud words" - Made in America - and promised "an economy made to last - an economy based on American manufacturing".
But if we allow our emotional connection to the manufacturing sector to overshadow the tremendous opportunities our service-based economy offers, we do ourselves a disservice.
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Thursday morning, the New York Times published the results of a lengthy investigation into the manufacturing practices of Apple suppliers, Chengdu, China-based Foxconn and Wintek.
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On January 26th, Sweden's Ericsson said it will contract out the manufacturing of nearly all its handsets to a Singapore-based firm, Flextronics, to help contain its costs.
From January 1995 to June 1997, 25 Penang-based companies, mainly in the manufacturing sector, qualified for listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, as compared to 29 between 1973 and 1994.
Gray Construction, a Kentucky-based builder of factories and other manufacturing facilities, has continued to win business from big European customers looking to expand in the U.S. But Chief Executive Stephen Gray said he has detected more anxiety among European customers in recent weeks, and he is factoring that into his hiring decisions.
As I said, we've got experts from a wide range of business sectors, and what we're going to talk about is, are there mechanisms that we can start putting in place where we see the kind of growth that used to characterize the U.S. economy -- export-driven growth, manufacturing growth, growth that pays high wages and provides high living standards for a broad-based middle class.
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" Craig Chulder, Tokyo-based strategist for Salomon Brothers, sees "great values for long-term investors in manufacturing.
As it is, Massachusetts-based solar panel maker Evergreen Solar moved its manufacturing to China in 2011.
The vulnerability of manufacturing jobs (Bentley, the luxury-car firm, is based nearby) is a worry that never goes away.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a pro-gun group based in Newtown, estimated gun manufacturing accounted for 7, 300 jobs in the state.
We grew 4.5% from 1950-1969 while this economy was still Keynesian (manufacturing based) and small business entrepreneurs chartered their own small banks.
As a country, we need the foundation of manufacturing, and we're becoming more a service and technology-based country.
It followed news earlier this week that US-based medical products company Daktari Diagnostics is to locate its manufacturing base to Inverness, creating up to 126 posts.
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