Even if companies like Apple are sending innovation abroad along with their manufacturing, neither Meyerson nor Pisano and Shih know quite what to do about this. Of course it would be nice to have more world class research centers, corporate R&D labs, and green energy projects in the U.S., but none of this has anything to do with reclaiming iPad manufacturing by building a plant in, say, Oakland. Still, if Pisano and Shih are right, we’re a decade away from Foxconn beating Apple products, and not just building Apple products.
