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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

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). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Beyond that, this surge could help cities.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

Average compensation in 2013 across the advanced industries sector was $90,000—nearly double that of workers in other industries. And, critically, after years of decline, these industries have led the economic recovery—employment and output growth since the recession have been 1.9

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Oil and Gas: Industrial Internet in Action

Harvard Business Review

GE has also introduced it to American customers at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. A recent test project for Christiansen and the team has been in the Ormen Lange natural gas field off the Norwegian coast. “Water is a very good medium for propagation of sound waves.