Quotes by Joel Popkin

“If the innovation process goes offshore, America will lose much of its capacity to generate wealth, and a decline in long-term economic growth is assured. The rapid growth in overseas manufacturing is creating new global centers with the critical mass necessary to build their own innovation machines.”

“The points in my previous report [a 2003 study identifying threats to the domestic manufacturing base] have become more urgent in the three years since I wrote it. There are few indicators that would disabuse me of the positions I took then.”