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"This report analyses China's ambitious plan to build one of the world's most advanced and competitive economies with the help of innovative manufacturing technologies (“smart manufacturing”). China's industrial masterplan “Made in China 2025” aims to turn the country into a “manufacturing superpower” over the coming decades. This industrial policy will challenge the economic primacy of the current leading economies and international corporations. The strategy targets virtually all high-tech industries that strongly contribute to economic growth in advanced economies: automotive, aviation, machinery, robotics, high-tech maritime and railway equipment, energy-saving vehicles, medical devices and information technology to name only a few. Countries in which these high-tech industries contribute a large share of economic growth are most vulnerable to China's plans (see graphic below). This report examines the repercussions of Made in China 2025 focusing specifically on smart manufacturing. The promotion and dissemination of smart manufacturing technology is the centrepiece of the strategy, borrowing from the German concept of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet formulated in the United States. By energetically upgrading the mostly backward industrial processes of China's manufacturing sector, the Chinese government hopes to enhance the competitiveness of its enterprises on domestic markets and to propel their global expansion. "

"This paper considers developments in UK growth performance and supply-side policies since the 1980s. It argues that economic reforms made in the Thatcher years and consolidated under subsequent governments delivered improved pre-crisis growth outcomes helped by the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution and stronger competition in product markets. The new growth economics provided useful insights for policy-makers, some of which were partly heeded. Recently, as productivity growth has stalled, there has been a turn to ‘soft' industrial policy and a fear that the future is one of secular stagnation. The former has made little difference and the latter is unlikely."

"When an organisation changes, grows, or new units join into a corporation, it generates challenges for health and safety (HS) management. There are different types of HS tools, systems, applications, forms and software which support HS management. The purpose of this research is to find out what kind of HS management practices and tools are used and what is required to manage HS efficiently within a global steel company's (Nemployees = 15.000) different sites. All the sites (N = 6) had a health and safety management system, which was based on OHSAS 18001 requirements. Local HS management practices and tools varied significantly, but had similar backgrounds. Corporate HS management was based around HS standards, vision and principles, plans and targets. Similarly, it also followed OHSAS requirements. Some improvement needs have been identified for both the local and the corporate level HS management practices and tools. It is possible to manage HS in a continuously changing organisation. The foundations should be based on corporate HS standards, which should be outlined clearly – based on the desired end result complying with the external requirements."

"Devant nos yeux, le monde change, dramatiquement, inéluctablement et irréversiblement. Les bouleversements dont nous sommes témoins affectent plus d'individus, de manière plus profonde, que tous les autres changements jamais vécus par l'humanité. Je ne fais pas référence à une guerre, un acte de terrorisme, un crach boursier, ou encore au réchauffement global, mais à une réalité fondamentale qui motive le terrorisme, la guerre, les fluctuations économiques, les changements climatiques et au-delà : les découvertes et l'épuisement des ressources énergétiques fossiles.
Le message central de ce livre est que la civilisation industrielle s'appuie sur la consommation de ressources énergétiques qui sont intrin­sèquement limitées en quantité et sur le point de devenir rares. Quand nous en serons là, la compétition pour les miettes du gâteau déclenchera des bouleversements économiques et géopolitiques ; au final, il pourrait même être impossible à une seule nation de faire perdurer la société industrielle telle que nous l'avons connue durant le XXe siècle.
Qu'adviendra-t-il après l'industrialisme ? Ce pourrait être un monde plus limité en termes de consommation, de population et de pression sur les écosystèmes. Mais le processus qui nous y amènera ne sera pas simple, même si les leaders mondiaux adoptent des stratégies intelligentes et coopératives, pour lesquelles ils n'ont montré que peu de volonté jusqu'à présent. Qu'à cela ne tienne, la fin de la civilisation industrielle ne doit pas nécessairement être la fin du monde. "