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Dave Cranmer

Dave Cranmer

Dave Cranmer is the Deputy Director of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). With MEP since 1993, he has overseen extension centers, conducted research on innovation, new product and service development and deployment, supply chains, technology roadmapping, eBusiness and exporting, built a business-to-business marketing consulting practice for smaller manufacturers, established specialty consulting practices in financial access, eBusiness, technology scouting and technology-driven market intelligence (TDMI). He has also worked on the formation of technology collaboratives using TDMI and a set of business-to-business network pilot projects for the MEP System. He is the current government representative on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Devices Good Manufacturing Practice Advisory Committee.

Reflections – Part 2

Dave Cranmer
"Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it."—Lewis M. Branscomb In the first part of

Reflections – Part 1

Dave Cranmer
This is the story of how and why the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) was created. It’s the first in a series of tributes to celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of a program whose main

Secrets

Dave Cranmer
“All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.” ― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Some secrets are intentional, some not. In my trip to Rochester, NY, I