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• <br /> Environmental Scan <br /> • <br /> What's Going on in the World? <br /> • Increased worldwide competition,especially <br /> manufacturing,business services <br /> • Innovation is constant&fast-paced <br /> • Information,skills are critical <br /> Implications <br /> -Niches less subject to global competition <br /> -Brainpower increasingly important <br /> -Adapt to increased pace of change <br /> What's Going on in the World? <br /> • MN manufacturers lost 46,400 manufacturing <br /> jobs between 2000 and 2003 essentially <br /> wiping out the manufacturing job gain of <br /> 52,600 between 1991 and 2000.(DEED) <br /> • Gain of 6,500 manufacturing jobs since <br /> bottoming out in July 2003 <br /> • Sept 04 manufacturing employment <br /> 349,500 statewide <br /> • <br /> Econmic Development Services-November 2004 6 <br />