Philip Shapira Motivates Manufacturers for a New Century

Posted July 11, 2016

External Article: AAAS

Philip Shapira, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Public Policy, was featured in “Philip Shapira Motivates Manufacturers for a New Century” for AAAS.

Excerpt:

As a teenager in London, Philip Shapira watched manufacturing evolve from the shop floor of Semnat Glass Works, a company that employed his father, grandfather, and uncles for decades.

“There was a little bit of automation in the factory, but it was not comprehensive and it was not integrated. Looking back now, I see that there are so many things they might have done that they didn't,” Shapira said.

He witnessed the end of an era. That glass company was one of many producers in London that went out of business in the early 1970s. Now, as a professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Professor of Management, Innovation and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research in the UK, Shapira’s focus is aimed at making sure small and mid-sized manufacturing companies don’t meet the same fate.

For the full article, read here.