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3D Printing to Get to Mars
On a recent trip to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the aerospace organization provided some insight to the inner-workings of spacecraft manufacturing. At the Marshall Space Flight Center, they...
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How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the...
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What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries
Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely...
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The Next Big (or Really, Really Tiny) Thing in 3D Printing
How to print blood vessels. And apartment buildingsA wedding ring holding a piece of moon rock. Hydroponic garden structures tailored to any shape desired. Jet engine fuel nozzles. An Aston Martin...
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Power to the People! It’s Boom Time for Distributed Power
A whisky distillery in Scotland uses mash residue to power its factory and produce steam for distilling while a brewery in Germany uses its own waste water to generate the electricity, steam and hot...
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Synchronized Factories — The Key to Latin America’s Industrial Future
In 2005, Bombardier, the Canadian aerospace and transportation company, opened the doors of a factory in Querétaro, Mexico. At the time, the move seemed like a serious gamble. Though Mexico offered low...
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Manufacturing, Entrepreneur-ship and Economic Strength
What’s the best way to measure the strength of a state’s economy?Job growth and unemployment rates are useful metrics, but researchers at the University of Nebraska’s Lincoln Bureau of Business...
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Zeroing in on the Big Picture
Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The...
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Projecting a Robot’s Intentions
A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots’ minds.In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT’s Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.Standing in its path...
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WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: Will the `Self-Help’ Program Succeed?
We have just passed the one-year anniversary of the WTO’s ninth Ministerial Conference in Bali, where members decided to adopt the agreement on trade facilitation. After overcoming some mid-year...
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Disincentivizing Online Piracy Through Innovation
You don’t have to read all the headlines about the online attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment to understand the growing problem of piracy confronting the TV and movie industry. While it may never be...
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Lessons from Latin America on STEM Education
If math wasn’t your favorite subject in school, you’re hardly alone. But sometimes it just takes one good teacher to open a child’s eyes to the opportunities that an education in math and science can...
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SOS on TPA: The Importance of Trade Promotion Authority
Following a dramatic end to the 113th Congress — which saw year-end compromises around defense spending authorization and the so-called “cromnibus” appropriations bill — President Obama and the newly...
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2015 — A Decisive Year for Globalization
Globalization has contributed enormously to world prosperity. The rationalization of production through global supply chains and the application of new technology worldwide — not just where it was...
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2015 — The Rise of Democrati-zation
While Merriam-Webster tells us that “culture” was the most popular word of 2014, I predict that “democratization” will become ubiquitous in 2015.Perhaps not everyone will use the actual word...
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Trade and Inequality: Cause? Cure? Diversion?
To look back over Census data on income and trade is to see three things happening at the same time: As trade flows have grown since the 1960s, Americans have become more affluent — but they have also...
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2015 — A Big Year for Big Data
By now, most people with an Internet connection have probably heard of Big Data. But is it really such a big deal?If you’re in an information-rich field such as healthcare, energy, manufacturing or...
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Expect Big Science Projects in 2015, International Year of Light
If science and technology gets your blood pumping, expect 2015 to be quite a workout.The calendar should be chock-full of big announcements and exciting events. From designing genomes to exploring the...
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Driving Economic Growth in Europe with Digital Transformation
What can revitalize the European economy? Many are asking this question as the region has stagnated economically for years. The answer lies in the wave of digital transformation enabled by the...
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Bridging the Gap: Education and Employment in Europe
Some people say that we are post-crisis, but years after the crisis has supposedly ended, with a youth unemployment rate in the EU of 21.6 percent of — and in many countries, that already high...
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