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Introduction
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... Also, national and international efforts to mitigate environmentally harmful effects of industrial processes and to improve decision making for handling and disposing of industrial contaminants adds additional requirements for any future efforts. The objective of retaining high-value materials-related manufacturing as a key national competitive capability implies a number of factors.
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... In the past cooperation took place among a few large organizations, universities, and companies -- for instance, transatlantic cooperation and long-standing partnerships between organizations in the United States and Great Britain. But today partnerships occur all over the world among actors of all sizes.
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... Despite these changes (i.e., industry–university partnerships being less attractive in the United States than in the past) , as Andre Sharon of the Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing noted, the United States still has an incredible entrepreneurial culture that moves quickly with private capital and is unmatched in the rest of the world.


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