The following is an excerpt from the VentureBeat article “What’s the blueprint? Preparing the heartland for AI, automation, and the future of work” featuring Maker City’s Marcia Kadanoff. An outline of the blueprint But to take advantage of those resources, and all the others that are available in larger and smaller capacities around the country, there must be connective tissue. That, more than anything, seems to be the key. Marcia…
Calling all Makers – join the UAE Global Challenge While UN Delegates were in NYC preparing for its week-long summit, the UAE was in New York gathering innovators from around the world to announce their global challenge: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity. The Initiative is based on solving the hard problems, in the words of Bin Rashid: The ones that no one country can solve alone. Sustainable…
Our partner U.S. News and World report launches the Maker City hub: https://www.usnews.com/news/maker-cities We launched at a breakfast roundtable in two cities: New York (May 2, 2017) and San Francisco (May 23, 2017). Additionally, U.S. News issued a press release you can find here: https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2017-05-23/us-news-showcases-maker-cities-at-national-stem-forum One of the Maker City Project’s core projects in 2017 involves working with U.S. News and World Report (151 Million uniques per month) to create…
By Amanda Kolson Hurley for CityLab When President Donald Trump announced his Manufacturing Jobs Initiative last month, he was moving forward on a promise he made over and over during his campaign: to make America great at making stuff again. “America became the world’s dominant economy by becoming the world’s dominant producer,” the then-candidate said during a campaign stop in Monessen, Pennsylvania, in June 2016. Lambasting globalization and trade pacts as “economic surrender,” he…
By Pratt Center for Community Development Urban manufacturing is being reborn in the United States. New small-batch producers are creating well-paying jobs in many cities that were once abandoned by more traditional manufacturers. Greater access to production technologies is making it possible for designers and entrepreneurs to innovate and create jobs by producing small runs, testing markets, refining designs and then launching new businesses. “Making,” “producing” and “manufacturing” are becoming…
By Mark Muro and Peter Hirshberg Amid the hoopla of celebrating a deal to save 800 jobs at a Carrier Corp. factory in Indiana last month, President-elect Donald Trump promised to usher in a “new industrial revolution“—one that sounded as much like a social awakening as a manufacturing one. And maybe those gestures will help. However, there is another way to think about touching off an industrial revival in America…
States and metropolitan areas need to focus. Ultimately, many in the group agreed that states and localities have key roles to play if U.S. metropolitan areas are going to monetize the digitization of manufacturing. With federal processes gridlocked, multiple workshop attendees agreed with City Innovate Foundation Board Chairman Peter Hirshberg that linking software and hardware and start-up and industry communities is “a distributed problem” that will be worked out city…
