The Future of Manufacturing and Innovation in Germany and the United States

Manufacturing in the United States and Germany face several innovation-related challenges: the structural impact of the green and digital transformations on key industries such as car manufacturing, skills and capabilities in the labor market for innovation, and vulnerabilities in the globalized value chains. For decades, the policy consensus may have been that these were not problems to be solved, but the logical, and indeed desirable, conclusion of large, industrialized economies operating in an open, globalized market. Offshoring the production of a certain component was not an issue so long as that component was readily available; an undiversified supply of energy was not a threat so long as the supply of gas did not pose challenges; the lack of domestic skills and capacities was not so much a concern so long as the movement of people across borders was relatively unobstructed.

This event brings together several leading thinkers on STI from the United States and Europe to discuss some of the key innovation challenges for manufacturing now and in the years ahead, and to explore what types of policies are necessary for innovation to meet these challenges.

Join ITIF and OECD to explore policy questions that arose in the context of the OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Germany 2022, but which have relevance to both the United States and Germany. #manufacturing #innovation #publicpolicy

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Full event agenda can be found on our website: https://itif.org/events/2023/03/29/innovation-and-the-future-of-manufacturing-in-germany-and-the-usa/

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