How Dresden became Germany’s Chips City (POLITICO)
By Pieter Haeck · Mar 26, 2024. This article is part of a special report, The New Factory Towns. DRESDEN, Germany — If Europe’s best manufacturing days are behind it, no one told Dresden. The eastern German city and Saxon capital has become an industrial stronghold, with a world-class microchip manufacturing sector that is attracting […]
The Ozempic boom: How the entire country of Denmark became a company town (POLITICO)
By Charlie Duxbury · Mar 26, 2024 This article is part of a special report, The New Factory Towns. KALUNDBORG, Denmark — It’s not the first time this small Danish town boomed with the times. The question for Mayor Martin Damm is when, or even whether, the bust will come again. In the 1920s a […]