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4 Panel 2: International Programs in Advanced Manufacturing
4 Panel 2: International Programs in Advanced Manufacturing
Pages 25-33
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In response, a workshop participant noted that MEP could use professional societies such as the Specialty Equipment Market Association, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and its International Exchange to network with SMEs. Morris introduced the day's first activity: a panel discussion of international programs relevant to the global manufacturing and technology investment landscape.
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The panelists were Scott Kennedy, senior advisor and director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy Project at the Center for Strategic International Studies; James Mulvenon, general manager of the Special Programs Division of SOS International (SOSi) ; and Sir Michael Gregory, founding head, Institute for Manufacturing (retired)
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While the program received unexpected and unwelcome international attention and was officially scrapped in 2018, the country's leadership has replaced it with a lower-profile program with a similar thrust. China is taking advantage of globalization by acquiring international compa nies and sending students abroad while enticing its highly educated emigrants to return home through the "1,000 Talents" program, which offers expatriates money and research opportunities.
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The institutes could also be more broadly structured to fill gaps in the private sector and build more bridges with industry, Kennedy said. This restruc turing would require objective criteria to determine funding and support, audits to assess return on investment, demonstrated civilian or military applications or commercialization, and the courage to stop funding technologies that lack an obvi ous market or application.
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China's Goals China's goal is not just to innovate, Mulvenon said, but also to edge foreign firms out of the Chinese market through long-range state industrial planning that favors national champion companies, such as telecommunications giant Huawei. To that end, China has been passing new laws to legitimize its counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, and national security strategies.
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Most information technology manufacturing equipment is made in China, and by requir ing foreign companies to use its own standards, China was able to force foreign companies to reveal internal source code to the same Chinese companies against which they compete. The Chinese companies then used that code to improve their technologies, push non-Chinese companies out of the domestic Chinese market, and improve China's global market share.
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Creation and Organization Catapult's launch, in 2012, was part of an overall trend in the United Kingdom toward developing sector-based industrial strategies. At the time, British universi ties had been quietly developing innovative manufacturing centers, and this strat egy was further propelled by the publication of an influential Foresight study.1 Now, Catapult has grown into a network of seven technology innovation centers with 2,500 employees and a yearly government subsidy of nearly £100 million.
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Catapult is self-governing, with an independent supervisory board, although it is also subject to oversight by Innovate UK, the government's innovation agency. During the initiative's launch, this supervisory board, on which Gregory served with senior industry leaders, was effective in creating a unified set of priorities re lated to improving the overall manufacturing industry.
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In closing, Gregory asserted that Catapult's impacts reflect a value greater than the sum of its parts: it has become a magnet for companies to invest in the United Kingdom and a confident voice that is restoring the national manufacturing ecosystem and creating global benefits. The passion and dedication that launched Catapult has spread throughout the centers, and while each center has its own goals, joint technology projects keep them united.
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