Events
- Conferences.
- Workshops.
- Best Paper Award 2013.
- Best Paper Award 2015.
- Lecture Series.
- Margit Noll.
- Éloi Laurent.
- Marina Fischer-Kowalski & Kurt Kratena.
- Thomas Wieser.
- Armando Garcia Schmidt.
- László Andor.
- Reinhilde Veugelers.
- Dennis Meadows.
- Giacomo Corneo.
- Anton Hemerijck.
- Claudia Kemfert & Andreas Löschel.
- Sjak A. Smulders.
- Kenneth Joseph Arrow.
- Stephen Matthews.
- Thomas Ferguson & Heinz Gärtner.
- Suzanne Berger & Karl Aiginger.
- Christoph Schmidt & Konrad Pesendorfer.
- Graciela Chichilnisky & Jan Rotmans.
- Roland Kupers & Clive L. Spash.
- Julie A. Nelson.
WWWforEurope Lecture Series
Remaking Manufacturing in the United States and Europe
Suzanne Berger & Karl Aiginger
Two Perspectives
May 21st, 2013, 13:15 – 15:00
WIFO, Objekt 20, Arsenal
| |
 |
“As U.S. companies shift the commercialization of their technologies abroad, [there is a danger that] their capacity for initiating future rounds of innovation will be progressively enfeebled. Much learning takes place as companies move their ideas beyond prototypes and demonstration and through the stages of commercialization. Learning takes place as engineers and technicians on the factory floor come back with their problems to the design engineers and struggle with them to find better resolutions; learning takes place as users come back with problems. And in the challenges of large-scale production, even of humble products, companies find a terrain for innovation that allows them to reap higher profits.”
Suzanne Berger is Professor of Political Science at MIT. She co-chairs the New Production in the Innovation Economy project and directs the MIT-France program in the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives. Her recent research focuses on politics and globalisation. She wrote several books including “Made by Hong Kong” and “How We Compete”.
Download Announcement of Suzanne Berger's Book "Making in America"
| |
|
“In order to reinvigorate economic growth in Europe and especially in the Southern periphery it is not enough to focus on restoring price competitiveness. The current consolidation strategy has important blind spots as far as industrial restructuring, upgrading tourism, making use of globalization and alternative energies, supporting business starts, connecting education, as well as innovation and firm creation are concerned.”
Karl Aiginger is director of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO), Professor of Economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and coordinator of the WWWforEurope project.
Download