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National core competencies and dynamic capabilities in times of crisis: Adaptive regulation of new entrants in advanced technology markets

Not all technological change is equal: how the separability of tasks mediates the effect of technology change on skill demand

Individual inconsistency and aggregate rationality: Overcoming inconsistencies in expert judgment at the technical frontier

Technology Forgiveness: Why emerging technologies differ in their resilience to institutional instability

Technology cost drivers for a potential transition to decentralized manufacturing

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Erica R.H. Fuchs is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and by courtesy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. She is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Fuchs’ research focuses on the development, commercialization and global manufacturing of emerging technologies, and national policy in that context.

Today, Dr. Fuchs is passionate about building nationally the intellectual foundations, data, and analytic tools to inform National Technology Strategy across government missions. Toward realizing this vision, Dr. Fuchs is currently Director of the one-year $4M pilot National Network for Critical Technology Assessment funded by NSF’s Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Office, and involving academic thought-leaders from more than 13 Tier I research universities across the country; and founding Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Critical Technology Strategy Initiative – an initiative spanning Carnegie Mellon’s schools of engineering, computer science, and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. She first learnt that she loved bringing faculty together in ways that the total is greater than the sum of the parts as founding Faculty Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative – an initiative across six schools aimed to revolutionize the commercialization and local production of advanced manufactured products, which today is an endowed institute.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Fuchs has played a growing role in national and international meetings on technology policy, including co-chairing the National Academies Committee on U.S. Science and Innovation Leadership in the 21st Century, serving on the expert group that supported the White House in the 2016 Innovation Dialogue between the U.S. and China, and being one of 23 participants in the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology workshop that led to the creation of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. Dr. Fuchs currently serves on the M.I.T. Corporation’s Visiting Committee for M.I.T.’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, of which M.I.T.’s Technology Policy Program is a part; and on the Advisory Editorial Board for Research Policy. Before coming to CMU, Dr. Fuchs completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Systems at M.I.T. in June 2006.

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Policy memo: How the EU and US should overcome their trade and supply-chain disputes

Building the analytic capacity to support critical technology strategy

Team Builds Tools, Innovations to Support Federal Investment

Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac

Blue-collar jobs will survive the rise of artificial intelligence. But the work will change

A National Network for Critical Technology Assessment: A Pilot

Launching a Critical Technology Analytics Collective: Roadmapping technical pathways to supply resilience in safety-critical robust semiconductors

Building a National Capacity for Cross-Mission Critical Technology Analytics: Timely situational awareness of U.S. and global technology capabilities

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Learn what CMU experts have to say about their Work That Matters.

 

Where manufacturing happens can affect potential innovation and has policy implications. EPP Associate Professor Erica Fuchs describes her research in this area. Fuchs' work was recently published in Science. 

Learn more: http://www.engineering.cmu.edu/media/press/2014/07_31_fuchs_redistributing_manufacturing.html

Erica Fuchs on Manufacturing Location and Innovation

Erica Fuchs, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy & founding Faculty Director of Carnegie Mellon's Manufacturing Futures Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, speaking at the "Machine Learning and Making Things" briefing. | House Manufacturing Caucus, Co-Chairs Tom Reed and Tim Ryan; October 3, 2017

Erica Fuchs | Machine Learning and Making Things; House Manufacturing Caucus

On March 29, Dr. Erica Fuchs, CMU professor of Engineering and Public Policy, delivered an Andy Talk titled, "The Material Future: How our Job, Energy, and National Security Depend on Who Makes What."

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