A third industrial revolution

A third industrial revolution | The Economist

Special report: Manufacturing and innovation In this special report A third industrial revolution Back to making stuff The boomerang effect Forging ahead Solid print Layer by layer All together now Making the future Sources & acknowledgementsReprints A third industrial revolution As manufacturing goes digital, it will change out of all recognition, says Paul Markillie. And some of the business ...

A Smart Green Third Industrial Revolution 2015 - 2020

The EU economy is slowing, productivity is waning, and unemployment remains stubbornly high. The question being raised with increasing urgency is how to rekindle “The European Dream.” The EU owes its success to a forward thinking series of economic and social visions that have motivated member states and the citizenry to continue on a common journey: the Maastricht Treaty, creating a political ...

The Third Industrial Revolution: Technology, Productivity, and Income Inequality

by Jeremy Greenwood Jeremy Greenwood is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Thanks go to Marvin Kosters for his helpful comments. This article is based on “1974,” a paper written in collaboration with Mehmet Yorukoglu, who played a vital role in pursuing this line of research. This article was also published as a monograph, under the title used here, by the American Enterpr...

Plus ca change: Industrial R&D in the “third industrial revolution”

The structure of industrial R&D has undergone considerable change since 1985, particularly in the United States. But rather than creating an entirely novel system, this restructuring has revived important elements of the industrial research “system” of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, many of the elements of the “Open Innovation” approach to R&D manage...

The New Industrial Revolution