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The recent loss of 440 manufacturing jobs at Ford Australia has generated a lot of debate about the long-term viability of the Australian car industry, and manufacturing in general. This debate has included…
Regular readers of “The Conversation” will have probably seen the coverage of the speech delivered by Dr Ken Henry to the Australian Conference of Economists at Victoria University, Melbourne published…
Printing has always been a manufacturing process that dates back to the invention of the first printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440. However, today the printing is being done in three dimensions…
Manufacturing has been a force for change in the world’s economy over the past two hundred years. The early industrial revolution in Britain’s textile manufacturing in the 1750s triggered the start. This…
The convergence of technology that has brought together what we now call information and communications technologies (ICT) has transformed our lives. Smart phones and tablets are now a common, almost essential…
Infrastructure is one of those unusual words that have many meanings. For example, we hear people talking of “hard” and “soft” infrastructure, with the first being a reference to roads and bridges. By…
An important indicator of the general health of entrepreneurship within an economy is the number of new business start-ups that occur each year. The creation of new business ventures is matched against…
The unemployment rate in the United States remains around 8.2% down from the peak of 10% it reached in 2009. If it remains high it will threaten President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects. Yet unemployment…
Venture Capital (VC) is often viewed by the mainstream media as an exciting and glamorous part of the entrepreneurial landscape. The popular image portrayed is that of “Dragon’s Den” where hopeful would-be…
In the midst of a maelstrom of economic woes caused by the Euro crisis the German economy has continued to perform relatively well. While many of its neighbours suffer recession and high unemployment…