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TOOLING INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION.
Understanding tooling industries role in the business manufacturing ecosystem.
0. Introduction
Tooling industries are a tiny sector in the global industrial ecosystem. In the mature USA market, tooling industries represent less than 0,1% of GDP – but manufacturing sectors dependent on tooling contribute with more than half of manufacturing value added. It is a tiny sector, bearing worldwide on dispersed and independent SMEs, that feeds the supply chain of the big industry (OEMs, …) with critical tools and knowledge.
But it is a sector usually not considered in the industry policy discussion and decision making, often not even mentioned in official statistics. Very few multinational corporate groups are active in the tooling business, and very few large companies operate in the sector, despite its keystone positioning. No systematic approach to the industry seems to be available until now.
Eduardo Beira (EDAM MIT Portugal, U. Minho)
Actions:
I. Global tooling system: structure and dynamics. Making sense of the structure and dynamics of the global business systems of tooling products.
II: Origins and consolidation of tooling industry in the context of development. Understanding the strange case of the evolutionary path of Portugal export driven tooling industry
III. Tooling and industrial innovation. Understanding the brokerage role of tooling industries in industrial innovation
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Contacts: tooling.edam.mitportugal@gmail.com
tooling project by Eduardo Beira is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Portugal License.