PFI: Partnership for Innovation in Wisconsin's Packaging and Printing Industry Cluster

该创新合作伙伴关系（PFI）项目已认识到威斯康星州的包装和印刷行业对该州经济成功至关重要，计划采用基于行业集群的方法来推动创新驱动的经济发展。 拟议活动的智力价值在于先进包装和印刷技术的创造，转让和应用（使用纳米颗粒油墨，复合涂层和嵌入式电子产品）。 该项目将导致开发具有上级特性（物理、化学和生物特性以及智能传感能力）的新包装和印刷产品和工艺。 它还将使改变供应链流程的能力和商业化的经济潜力成为可能，并将提高对该行业必要变革的理解。 总之，这些进步将构成外国竞争的高壁垒，并使创造高薪就业机会在威斯康星州。包装和印刷业是具有战略意义的威斯康星州和全国作为一个整体。在出货量方面，威斯康星州的全国排名是塑料薄膜包装第一，纸包装第一，金属罐包装第四，瓦楞纸板和纤维板包装第九，折叠纸箱包装第十一。 威斯康星州的包装和印刷业是国家和民族就业的主要来源。 整个美国印刷业就业的31%位于密尔沃基-麦迪逊-芝加哥三角地带。 战略举措，将创造一个可持续的竞争优势，为威斯康星州包装和印刷业是其持续成功的必要条件。 该项目的更广泛影响还包括科学和技术素养和多样化的劳动力（从高中生到拥有博士学位的大学毕业生，代表性不足的群体）。 这些员工将准备好利用这些新知识来推动创新和生产力的增长，并推动基础设施，使威斯康星州的包装和印刷行业能够实现网络，协作和创业。合作伙伴包括教育机构：威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（牵头机构）、威斯康星州斯托特大学和沃基沙县技术学院;行业组织：阿普尔顿公司、班塔图书集团、比米斯公司、五大湖包装公司、凯尔集装箱公司、金伯利-克拉克公司、普伦特公司、红草原公司、罗克韦尔自动化公司、萨金特食品公司、Serigraph公司、斯托拉恩索、Suttle-Straus和斑马技术公司;州实体：州长办公室;其他利益相关者：前进威斯康星州、威斯康星州印刷工业公司和威斯康星州制造商商业公司。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project, which has recognized the packaging and printing industry in Wisconsin as critical to the state's economic success, plans to adopt an industry cluster-based approach to innovation-driven economic development. The intellectual merit of the proposed activity lies in the creation, transfer, and application of advanced packaging and printing technology (using nanoparticle-based inks, composite coatings, and embedded electronics). This project will lead to the development of new packaging and printing products and processes that have superior characteristics (physical, chemical, and biological properties and smart sensing capabilities). It will also make possible the ability to transform supply chain processes and the economic potential for commercialization, and it will improve the understanding of necessary changes in the industry. Together, these advances will pose high barriers for foreign competition and enable the creation of high-paying jobs in Wisconsin.The packaging and printing industry is of strategic importance to Wisconsin and the nation as a whole. In terms of shipments, Wisconsin's national rank is No. 1 in plastic film packaging, No. 1 in paper, No. 4 in metal cans packaging, No.9 in corrugated and fiber board packaging, and No.11 in folding cartons packaging. Wisconsin's packaging and printing industry is a major source of employment for the state and the nation. Thirty-one percent of the entire U.S. printing employment is based in the Milwaukee-Madison-Chicago triangle. Strategic initiatives that will create a sustainable competitive advantage for the Wisconsin packaging and printing industry are imperative for its continued success. The broader impacts of this project also include a scientifically and technologically literate and diverse workforce (from high-school students to college graduates with a Ph.D., and under-represented groups). This workforce will be prepared to capitalize on this new knowledge to advance growth in innovation and productivity and drive an infrastructure that enables networking, collaboration, and entrepreneurship in Wisconsin's packaging and printing industry.Partners include Educational Institutions: University of Wisconsin-Madison (lead institution), University of Wisconsin Stout, and Waukesha County Technical College; Industrial organizations: Appleton Company, Banta Book Group, Bemis Company, Great Lakes Packaging Corporation, Kell Container Corporation, Kimberly-Clark, Prent Corporation, RedPrairie, Rockwell Automation, Sargento Foods, Serigraph, Inc., Stora Enso, Suttle-Straus, and Zebra Technologies; State Entities: Office of the Governor; and Other Stakeholders: Forward Wisconsin, Printing Industries of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.