Ned Hill, dean of Cleveland State University Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

The Ohio State University

Earlier this year, Edward W. (Ned) Hill, dean and professor of economic development at the Cleveland State University Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, was invited to The Ohio State University to present on "The role of higher education in development and the role of economic development in higher education.” He talks all things manufacturing on the Manufacturing Tomorrow podcast: the third industrial revolution, a flexible workforce that does not need a lot of supervision and following your customer to the grave. He also offers recommendations on what universities should do to support manufacturers - engage curiosity driven and promote service-leadership. In addition to serving as dean and professor of Economic Development at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affair, Hill is nonresident senior fellow of The Brookings Institution, where he is affiliated with the Metropolitan Policy Program; and nonresident visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of California at Berkeley though his membership in the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Building Resilient Regions. He chaired the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) from 2007 to 2010, where he remains a member of the advisory board. Ned writes on economic development and urban public policy and edited Economic Development Quarterly from 1994 to 2005. His latest co-authored book, Economic Adversity and Regional Economic Resilience, is to be published by Cornell University Press in late 2015. Covering the latest topics, Manufacturing Tomorrow guests include company C-suite executives and engineers to industry-facing academics, supportive government and regional economic development agents of change. More information is at http://omi.osu.edu/podcast.