The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recently submitted
a report to the President of the United States on the relationship between hightechnology
manufacturing and the nation’s long-term economic security. The impetus for
the PCAST report is the concern that a larger share of high-tech manufacturing formerly
performed in the United States is increasingly being done overseas, with potentially harmful
consequences to the U.S. economy. The Science and Technology Policy Institute (S&TPI)
was asked to provide analytic support to the PCAST panel. The project was sponsored by the
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
This report presents the material that S&TPI provided to the PCAST panel. It contains
six essays on various topics related to high-tech manufacturing. While the essays focus
on the overarching issue addressed by the PCAST panel, they can be read independently