If China is the world's most efficient workshop, perhaps it does not also need to be the world's most cutting-edge laboratory.
So this is what I get to go over with an impressive array of real-world Scottish managers in workshop mode in Edinburgh over the weekend.
Germany's status as workshop of the world makes it uniquely vulnerable to the downturn.
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The nineteenth was the British century, of industry and empire, the workshop of the world, Waterloo and the Great Exhibition.
The forging of global supply chains in the past 20 years, the rise in merchandise trade and the emergence of China as the workshop of the world created growing demand.
Foxconn, the contract manufacturer whose biggest customer is Apple, is preparing genuinely representative labour union elections in its factories in China for the first time, a powerful sign of the changes in the workshop of the world demanded by an increasingly restive workforce.
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In order to address this issue, UNESCO's Phnom Penh Office, in collaboration with the Cambodian National Commission for UNESCO and the National Museum, is organising a workshop for Cambodian Memory of the World focal points.
Last year, two government-convened groups came to almost opposite conclusions about the dangers of BPA. On one side, 38 of the world's leading experts, who attended a workshop organised by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), concluded that people's average levels of BPA now exceed those that cause harm in laboratory animals.
Today, the workshop is put to use by art-world celebrities such as David Lynch and Karl Lagerfeld.
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In addition to the new hardware technology, OLPC has been very active in strengthening strategic partnerships with world-class educational content developers, including Sesame Street Workshop, UNESCO and Little Pim, to provide content for the XO laptops and tablets.
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The conference is designed as an interactive workshop and is expected to gather 80 invited participants from around the world.
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Maker gives us the tools and the workshop, and they provided me with invaluable exposure and education about the online world.
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They have included the granting of the National Monument Conservation and Restoration Award, a National Workshop on the 1972 Convention, a travelling photograph exhibit of Cuban spots declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, and the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the declaration of Old Havana and its colonial fortress system as World Heritage Sites.
After serving as a flight instructor during World War II, he turned down an airline pilot's career and returned to the workshop.
In the first months of the Fellowship, I was invited to present a talk and workshop to the Fellows, on the topic of How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors.
When they finished their performance they headed off to give a workshop, but for most of the crowd leaving the Womad stage meant going back to the real world for another year.
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