High-Tech Factories Built to Be Engines of Innovation

Industries that produce complex, high-technology products — things like bioengineered tissues, not light bulbs — companies that keep their research and manufacturing employees close together might be more innovative than businesses that develop a schematic and send it overseas for low-wage workers to make.

By ANNIE LOWREY

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