President Trump’s new tariffs suggest he doesn’t understand why American steel and aluminum have been hurt in the first place.
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South Africa needs a robust economic policy agenda to make it more open, productive and inclusive.
On March 1, Donald Trump imposed a series of steel and aluminum tariffs. To understand their potential impact, it’s instructive to look at what happened after George W. Bush enacted similar measures in 2002.
Flaws in manufacturing processes can cause chip flaws like Spectre and Meltdown – and blockchain technology may offer a solution.
Why we’re developing a soft robot inspired by an elephant’s trunk.
After being a model for offshoring, the fashion industry is becoming a model for “omni-shoring”, rather than reshoring to ensure its innovative capacity.
Worries about the loss of low-skilled labour risk obscuring a genuine flaw in the UK economy at the upper end of the scale.
Silicon Valley brought together natural surroundings, suburban homes and futuristic high-tech work. But industrial pollution betrayed the California dream.
From the sounds of some brands’ marketing, you may be forgiven for believing that bespoke shoes are just a footstep away.
Bill Shorten is promising that a Labor government would set up a A$1 billion fund to assist ‘advanced manufacturing’.
If President Trump really wants to restore America’s manufacturing might he should invest heavily in AI, the internet of things and other emerging technologies that are changing the world.
There’s been a lot of rhetoric in the air about the fate of NAFTA, especially from the U.S. president. But its demise is extremely unlikely.
Research shows that technology disrupts economies of scale, turning megacities’ huge populations from strength to liability. To survive, megacities, like companies, must adapt.
South Africa’s recently announced economic recovery plan failed to break away from the cumbersome neo-liberal line.
Under current government policy we are penalising the sector of the economy where there is the largest proportion of existing employment and the best prospects for future growth.
Smart machines are about to usher in the age of Industry 4.0.
A warning from Athens about facing political headwinds with a government barely worth the name.
Uganda needs to boost manufacturing and exports to realise the ambitions listed in its social and economic development plan.
The side effects of globalisation that have led to our current populist politics will not be successfully addressed by old-style industry policy.
Surveys show Trump’s election is damaging America’s reputation abroad, which research suggests could deal a sharp blow to US trade.
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Project Officer, Centre for Workplace Leadership, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Incoming Director of the Australian Institute of Business and Economics at UQ, and Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, Adelaide University
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
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Academic Director, Murdoch University
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Director Future Manufacturing National Research Flagship, CSIRO
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Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS), University of Bath
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Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne