Does US manufacturing need more universities?

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Needed: ‘manufacturing universities’ to keep U.S. competitive
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
The erosion in manufacturing capability weakened the U.S. economy over the past two decades, Atkinson and Ezell add.

Michel Baudin‘s insight:

Universities have essentially contributed nothing to the art of manufacturing in the past, and I have a hard time understanding how they could be essential to US manufacturing competitiveness in the future.

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