The Country Readiness project team collaborated closely with members of the World Economic Forum’s Future of Production community—which consists of over 50 companies, 26 governments and nearly 30 academics—to develop this report.  Preliminary findings from the readiness assessment were presented at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2017, India Economic Summit, World Manufacturing Forum, Systems Initiatives Workshop in Tokyo, The Fourth Industrial Revolution Forum in Ulsan, and several other regional and country workshops.

We would like to thank members of the Country Readiness for the Future of Production project steering committee and members of the Global Future Council on Production for their contributions. We would like to specifically thank the following individuals:

Richard Baldwin
Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland

Marcela Escobari
Visiting Fellow – Global Economy and Development,
Brookings Institution, and Senior Advisor to the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, United States

Kamau Gachigi
Founding Executive Director, Gearbox, Kenya

Keun Lee
Professor of Economics, Seoul National University,
Republic of Korea

Justin Lin
Director, Center for New Structural Economics,
Peking University, China

Carlos Lopez Gomez
Head of Knowledge Transfer, POLICY LINKS,
Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (CSTI), Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jun Ni
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, 
S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center, University of Michigan, United States

Lisa Schroeter
Global Director, Trade and Investment Policy,
The Dow Chemical Company, United States

Jagjit Singh Srai
Head, Centre for International Manufacturing,
Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Krystyn Van Vliet
Associate Provost, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States

We would also like to thank the many institutions that shared data for analysis:

• Harvard University
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• PitchBook
• Quacquarelli Symonds
• The Heritage Foundation
• Transparency International
• United Nations (UN)
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
• World Bank (WB)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• World Resources Institute (WRI)
• World Trade Organizations (WTO)
• Yale University

The Readiness for the Future of Production Report 2018 is published by the World Economic Forum’s System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Production.

From The World Economic Forum

• Cheryl Martin
  Member of the Managing Board
• Richard Samans
  Member of the Managing Board
• Helena Leurent
  Head, System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Production
• Francisco Betti
  Lead, System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Production
• Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz
  Head, System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Economic Progress
• Thierry Geiger
  Head, Research and Regional Impact, System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Economic Progress

From A.T. Kearney

• Johan Aurik
  Managing Partner and Chairman
• Mauricio Zuazua
  Project Advisor
• Otto Schulz
  Project Advisor
• Andrea Blaylock
  Project Collaborator

We would like to thank Mike Fisher for his editing work and Neil Weinberg for graphic design and layout. The online report (http://wef.ch/fopreadiness18) was created by Applied Works, Robert Gale at Design Resources Limited, and Travis Hensgen at Traversal.