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Buttons are just one part of a steady hollowing out of the UK’s manufacturing supply chain since the 1970s.
Food is not waste until it’s wasted.
Is 3D printing better for the environment than conventional manufacturing? The jury is still out.
President Trump’s global trade wars may indeed drive manufacturing back to the U.S. – just not in the way he predicted.
The art and design industry in Australia is demanding ‘mass customisation’ of works of art. Robots may be the answer – and they’re creating jobs already.
Donald Trump’s obsession with trade deficits, and his subsequent wielding of the tariff big guns, is the absolute wrong approach for the U.S. economy.
Talk of the post-industrial society is mostly hype without evidence.
High municipal electricity tariffs pose a serious threat to South Africa’s machinery and equipment manufacturing industries.
Elon Musk ‘s Tesla has serious production problems.
The Reserve Bank is clinging to sunny GDP forecasts, but stubbornly low inflation and low wage growth mean even these look weak.
A closer look at the US-China trade relationship shows why Trump’s ‘targeted’ tariffs are likely to hurt American workers and businesses as well.
President Trump’s new tariffs suggest he doesn’t understand why American steel and aluminum have been hurt in the first place.
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.
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Project Officer, Centre for Workplace Leadership, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, University of South Australia
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Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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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 Geography, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
