{"558181":{"#nid":"558181","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Philip Shapira Motivates Manufacturers for a New Century","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhilip Shapira, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Public Policy, was featured in\u0026nbsp;\u201cPhilip Shapira Motivates Manufacturers for a New Century\u201d for \u003Cem\u003EAAAS\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EAs a teenager in London, Philip Shapira watched manufacturing evolve from the shop floor of Semnat Glass Works, a company that employed his father, grandfather, and uncles for decades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u201cThere was a little bit of automation in the factory, but it was not comprehensive and it was not integrated. Looking back now, I see that there are so many things they might have done that they didn\u0027t,\u201d Shapira said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EHe witnessed the end of an era. That glass company was one of many producers in London that went out of business in the early 1970s. Now, as a professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Professor of Management, Innovation and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research in the UK, Shapira\u2019s focus is aimed at making sure small and mid-sized manufacturing companies don\u2019t meet the same fate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/blog\/member-spotlight\/philip-shapira-motivates-manufacturers-new-century\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-08-02 15:56:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:16","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"marine learning","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/blog\/member-spotlight\/philip-shapira-motivates-manufacturers-new-century","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"472671":{"id":"472671","type":"image","title":"Philip Shapira","body":null,"created":"1449257190","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:30","changed":"1475895223","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:43","alt":"Philip Shapira","file":{"fid":"205722","name":"philipshapiraweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/philipshapiraweb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/philipshapiraweb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1123820,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/philipshapiraweb_0.jpg?itok=5XYAOj4T"}}},"media_ids":["472671"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3687","name":"Philip Shapira"},{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}