The nation’s booming innovation economy is in danger of losing steam and moving overseas unless there is a significant increase in manufacturing in the U.S., according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but Massachusetts is poised to take advantage of such an increase, a state official says.
“We think there’s no task more urgent in the United States than rebuild the capabilities in the industrial ecosystem,” said Suzanne Berger, MIT professor and author of the book-length global manufacturing study released yesterday. “What we need is the kind of production that will allow us to get the great ideas ... out into the world rapidly.”
