University-company partnerships key to resolving outsourcing of U.S. jobs

Many analysts believe that industry-university partnerships in the U.S. similar to those between the Electrical Manufacturing and Coil Winding Association and American universities could help the U.S. electrical manufacturing industry recover from the loss of jobs overseas through the development of new innovations. Unfortunately, media outlets often fail to provide a balanced view of the outsourcing issue for many industries including the electrical and electronics manufacturing industry, thus creating public uncertainty regarding the import and export of U.S. jobs. This paper summarizes some of the outsourcing issues in the industry today, provides insights into how the electrical and electronics manufacturing industry could re-establish itself through relationships with institutions of higher education, and attempts to decipher the real story of outsourcing that our national media fails to report.