Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau compiles data at the national and state levels describing the performance of the manufacturing sector within the U.S. While the data are usually included in the Census’ Annual Survey of Manufacturers, every five years the data can instead be found in the U.S. Economic Census.
Three of the major thrusts for the research investments of many states – hydrogen energy technologies, nanomanufacturing, and intelligent and integrated manufacturing – are the focus of a new report by a federal Interagency Working Group on Manufacturing R&D. Manufacturing the Future: Federal Priorities for Manufacturing R&D describes the significance of each of the three critical manufacturing R&D areas, details the challenges essential for progress, discusses existing interagency collaborations and provides recommendations for future research.
Two-thirds of Pennsylvania manufacturers are in a stronger competitive position than they were in 2003, according to a new study conducted by the Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Centers.
This report primarily looks at exports and manufacturing production within Texas.
This study analyzes the motives and results of outsourcing. In most cases, R&D outsourcing is driven by knowledge acquisition, but increasing R&D capacity and increasing flexibility are also important motives.
This study analyzes the extent of outsourcing in Finnish manufacturing. Differentiating between functions and regions, the offshore outsourcing concerns mainly production activities, and to a lesser extent R&D.
This paper studies the persistence of innovation and the dynamics of innovation output in Dutch manufacturing using firm data from three waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS), pertaining to the periods 1994-1996, 1996-1998, and 1998-2000.
The survey includes 263 plants that reported employment of 44,834 jobs in 2005, up 44% from 2003. These jobs support another 79,356 jobs as a result of purchases by industry employees and companies. The 124,190 direct and indirect jobs generated a payroll of $4.8 billion in 2005.
This report is an update to the 2003 report, "Securing America’s Future: The Case for a Strong Manufacturing Base." It examines whether the threats to the U.S. manufacturing base identified in the report have heightened since that report was published. With fewer young people choosing manufacturing as a career, and increased global competition, U.S. manufacturing innovation is at risk, the report finds.
This paper presents job creation and destruction data from 1972-1998 based on the Longitudinal Research Database. The authors provide a rich array of employer
characteristics including industry, size, business age, ownership structure, location and wage structure.