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Ohio must flex its manufacturing muscle (and policy)

Added May 9th, 2012

Manufacturing policy that encourages clustering and rewards collaboration between firms will allow Ohio to build on existing strengths; strengths that other states cannot replicate. Policy that rewards individual firms for moving out of metropolitan areas is costly and undercuts competitiveness.
Manufacturing has shed its rust-belt image and become more diversified and advanced, according to this analysis by the Metropolitan Policy… read more

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