Here are two interesting pieces.
The first is about Singapore and government backing a venture which should have failed. It is written by Scott Anthony who has written some books with HBS (Disruptive) Innovation Guru Clayton Christensen and works for Innosight - a company founded by Christensen. There is a book by Josh Lerner on government efforts at venture capital which I had to stop reading (temporarily I hope) because it could have been better written: Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The second is a Q&A on HBS Working Knowledge with Gary Pisano and Willy Shih who have earlier argued that manufacturing is essential for the U.S. if it wants to continue to innovate. So they think its not too late to bring manufacturing back and also suggest that the U.S. should have a coordinated national economic strategy (Mike Porter says the same thing). Unfortunately they don't tell us how this would happen and what government might do to discourage outsourcing. And of course - they completely miss out consumers.
