Middle market manufacturing is growing but these businesses face a unique set of challenges to the way they operate. This report serves to better understand the environmental conditions, challenges, and opportunities middle market manufacturers currently face and to uncover what actions the best-performing middle market manufacturers are taking to mitigate new risks and capitalize on new opportunities resulting from the evolution in the industry.
The National Center for the Middle Market in partnership with Cherry Bekaert LLP and The Ohio State University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship conducted a survey among 400 middle market leaders and senior managers responsible for innovation at their companies, as well as leaders in each of three innovation-intensive industries—health and life sciences, industrial, and technology, to identify best practices used by the most innovation and fastest growing middle market companies.