Last night President Obama proposed the launch of "a network of manufacturing hubs" through which industry, universities, community colleges, and governments will work together to develop and deploy new manufacturing technologies. That line in the State of the Union address probably had a lot of folks scratching their heads, wondering where it came from. After all, we as a nation have gotten out of the habit of thinking much about manufacturing, how innovation works, and the work of inventing things.
So what is it all about?
As it happens, and as I wrote last summer, Obama’s manufacturing hubs proposal is not a one-off idea out of nowhere but in fact is one very smart and plausible idea that Congress and the nation really should embrace.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Manufacturing Hubs: What and Why? | Brookings Institution
