Bring Back Innovation and Industry to the USA!
Sam Simione
President and Engineering Sales Representative at Contech Marketing Associates
Going back to Nixon, Kissinger and earlier, many American industries started going offshore. In the last 25 years the pace accelerated to the point we cannot sustain our lifestyles nor our national defense and security without relying on factories in the far east. The current shortage in semiconductors is just the beginning of things to come.
As factories move, eventually technology and new innovation moves to those nations producing the products.
The first Silicon Valley was developed in the Northeast Corridor between New Jersey- New York and Boston area. Many Hi-Technology innovations started here in the early to mid 20th century, Including development of semiconductors, fiber optics, computers, software, TV & Radio transmission, at locations including AT&T Bell Labs, MIT Lincoln Labs, IBM TJ Watson Research, RCA Sarnoff Research center and countless others.
Silicon Valley then developed in the '50's-'70's started by companies such as Hewlett Packard, Intel , Fairchild Semiconductor, Sandford Research Institute (SRI), Xerox PARC Lab, Oracle, Apple and others.
Nowadays we are heavily reliant on Korea, Taiwan and China for semiconductors. As these technologies have moved, so has much of the innovation that the US was known for! I believe the US has been too open over the last fifty years in sharing our technology too early with the rest of the world. Case in point, the US government funds research at many Universities that often share their work and findings with foreign universities and entities.
I believe that our government is incapable of policing technology as politicians usually don't understand new technology, it's future implementations and consequences.
Outsourcing has been a good cover up for industrial espionage. I have witnessed this personally as a young engineer and it bothers me till this day!
Our government needs to organize American industry with mandates and incentives to bring back high tech manufacturing to the US as a matter of National Security and also to keep our high standard of living with high paying factory and professional jobs!
Principal at DLVH Information Services LLC
3 年It starts with Education - for all who can benefit. China and Europe are beating the USA hands-down in advanced technical education for ALL who can and will benefit - not just those with $’s or the ability to fund an education loan - just imho ??
Commercial, Space and Defense electronics and innovations go hand in hand. Each market has its ups and downs. US corporate leadership needs to understand that you can't be a leader in one market and ignore the others; growth and leadership in all three markets means a strong economy which can thwart economic and political take-overs by foreign entities, especially those which are adversarial. This was the formula for our sustained growth and technological progress after WW2. Somehow, during the 80's, this started to falter. Case in point is the Cellular and Wireless Communications markets, which were 'invented' in the USA. Now, the USA doesn't even sustain the development of these products within its own borders. The same can be stated for the Television and Telecommunications markets; the development of the products fuels the economic growth and sustainability of the underlying technology. It's truly a much more complex and competitive world today, then even 50 years ago. That's what makes it so different and difficult in the 21st century, but that should also provide us with more opportunities for growth through innovation.