Study: Strategies to Strengthen U.S. Manufacturing Could Be Learned from Germany
WASHINGTON — Best practices from Germany's manufacturing regions are powerful tools for American efforts to strengthen the sector in the United States. Drawing on lessons from a recent study tour to Munich and Nuremberg, a new paper by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, released as a part of the Global Cities Initiative, documents Germany's model for industrial competitiveness and how it can be applied to U.S. cities, metro areas and states.
Germany's world-class manufacturing sector benefits from powerful public-private collaborations on applied research to support innovation and a dual model of vocational education to sustain a highly trained workforce.