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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch).

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The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

More broadly, the Obama administration set up the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center (“ America Makes ”), a technology support program in Youngstown, Ohio. From product design to customer outreach, additive enables a fully-digitized enterprise that is hyper-responsive to market trends.