For the foreseeable future, the United States’ critical infrastructures will be a major focus for homeland security while contributing greatly to the prosperity of the states and the private sector. The designation of critical infrastructures has evolved from a vague concept of public goods...

During the transition to a market economy, the state of many countries’ economies and the international textile industry face considerable challenges. There are many uncertainties surrounding the global textile market, exacerbated by gloomy predictions that for a decade should have been...

The EU member states of Central Eastern Europe (EU-CEE) have experienced rapid convergence in the decades following their EU accession, and have built up strong export-oriented manufacturing sectors boosted by foreign direct investment inflows. While this growth model has brought many positives,...

A strategy to achieve the competitive insertion of a country in the international markets should take into account two fundamental aspects: a) Capacity to generate a transformation in the productive structure of a country and b) Adaptation to changes in the world demand. The first aspect allows...

On June 4, 2021, the U.S. White House released a report assessing its supply chains in four critical areas: semiconductors, batteries, pharmaceuticals, and rare-earth minerals. The report included policy recommendations for securing competitiveness in the above sectors.The report’s authors...

Korea’s industrial robot sector is now the world’s fifth-largest, aided by systematic and consistentgovernment policy over the past decade. It is still heavily reliant on imports for key parts however,and the industry is fragmented, consisting of many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in...

The machinery industry is a very difficult sector to develop in the short term. It is also not easy to drastically shorten the developmental period. Therefore, it is necessary for developing countries to thoroughly review Korea’s policy trends when designing machinery industry policies. This...

The present paper illustrates the role of industry in economic and social development of Romania, in the context of the propagated effects of the contemporary economic and financial crisis and mission that is in the recovery of gaps in relation to EU countries. The dynamic of the industrial...

Una estrategia para lograr la inserción competitiva de un país en los mercados internacionales debe tomaren cuenta dos aspectos fundamentales:a) capacidad para generar una transformación en la estructuraproductiva del país y b) adaptación a los cambios en la demanda mundial.El primer...

Abstract Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has...