What is it about?
This is the introduction to a special issue targeted to applied research about how U.S. federal and state policies can help promote investment in manufacturing and what can be learned from efforts already underway.
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Why is it important?
Manufacturing impacts almost every part of the United States. Because it is a basic sector with relatively high multiplier impacts, elected leaders and economic development practitioners spend a great deal of public resources encouraging its growth.
Perspectives
While job growth in manufacturing has been relatively modest, GDP growth continues to increase. This issue is designed to help better understand what economic development practitioners are or could be doing to encourage the sector, provide better jobs for its workers, and promote more spin-offs from its success.
Kenneth Poole
Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness
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This page is a summary of: Strengthening Manufacturing—How Research Can Inform Public Policy: An Introduction to the Special Issue, Economic Development Quarterly, October 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0891242418800070.
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