Towards the Re-Industrialization of Europe A Concept for Manufacturi

Not only are European industries shrinking and experiencing diminishment of their capability to add value, but Europe has lost more than a third of its GDP, which had been primarily based on manufacturing, and it suffers the consequences in high unemploym

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Towards the Re-Industrialization of Europe A Concept for Manufacturing for 2030

Towards the Re-Industrialization of Europe

Engelbert Westkämper

Towards the Re-Industrialization of Europe A Concept for Manufacturing for 2030

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Engelbert Westkämper Universität Stuttgart Fraunhofer IPA IFF Stuttgart Germany

ISBN 978-3-642-38501-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-38502-5

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Letters of Recommendations José Manuel Barroso President of the European Commission

on occasion of the World Manufacturing Forum 2012, Stuttgart, Germany The EU is among the world’s leading exporters in such industrial sectors as aeronautics, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals, adding that industry accounts for 80 percent of the European Union’s current exports and for 80 percent of its private research and development expenditures. But while 74 million jobs in the European Union depend on manufacturing and related services the crisis has cost industry 3 million jobs, and Europe’s industrial production remains around 10 percent below the levels it reached in the years prior to the crisis. We ca