The National League of Cities recently released Discover Your City's Maker Economy, a report that "provides a roadmap for cities to develop policies, programs and a culture that better supports local maker businesses."
The thrust of the report is that "maker-entrepreneurs" - individuals or micro-businesses who create (either by design or fabrication) and sell tangible products - are potentially the future of manufacturing.
The report also suggests the maker movement can drive employment opportunities and provide more inclusive access to entrepreneurship.
This echos a report earlier this year from the Brookings Institution. It too says the maker movement could be the future of manufacturing and describes it as:
"a deeply American source of decentralized creativity for rebuilding America’s thinning manufacturing ecosystems."
Brookings concludes by saying:
“By embracing the do-it-yourself ethos of the maker movement, communities across the country can renew a sense of local community and help rebuild American manufacturing from the ground up.
The recent article Economy of Scale: Can the Maker Movement Revive U.S. Manufacturing?, from AB Architecture, also covers this ground.
The article chart below provide some interesting data on the growth of maker entrepreneurs.
We've long covered the growing maker movement and "maker-entrepreneurs". It's one of the most interesting industrial sectors we follow.
So we certainly agree there's a lot of potential for growth from this sector.
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