Fred Bakker

Fred Bakker is a former editor in chief of Het Financieele Dagblad and the co-author of The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation.

Articles by Fred Bakker
Industrial robots prepare to attach doors to the body of an ID.3 electric car at a Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany, on Feb. 25, 2020.

What Biden Can Learn From Europe’s Industrial Policy
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Fred Bakker
Worker prepares the collaborative dual-arm robot YuMi at the Swiss automation group ABB booth at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in Hanover, central Germany on April 13, 2015. India is the partner country of this year's trade fair running until April 17, 2015. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ (Photo credit should read TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

The Brainbelt Awakening
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Antoine van Agtmael, Fred Bakker
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

Made in the U.S.A. (Again)
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Antoine van Agtmael, Fred Bakker
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