"President Obama Wants America to Be Like Germany—What Does That Really Mean?"

President Obama Wants America to Be Like Germany—What Does That Really Mean?

at the Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/president-obama-wants-america-to-be-like-germany-what-does-that-really-mean/273318/

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"America concentrates on the mass market and quantity, but Germany is king of niche markets," says Professor Bernd Venohr of Berlin's School of Economics. That entrepreneurial strategy has allowed these German companies to be manufacturing and export dynamos, providing developing nations like China and India with the high tech precision tools they need to become the mass production factories of the world.

A typical enterprise will focus on making a single, high quality product that is crucially needed by other industrial enterprises, and they are the best in the world at producing it. Many manufacturing SMEs have become world market leaders in their field, dominating the global market in an astonishing range of areas.


-- Tente specializes in heavy duty casters and wheels for industrial uses.


-- Würth is the leading industrial supplier of assembly and fastening materials worldwide.

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