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Building resilience in high-tech supply chains

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High-tech industries power the modern digital world, but their supply chains are particularly vulnerable to geopolitical and economic disruption. Urgent action is needed to improve supply-chain resilience.

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Fig. 1: High-tech supply-chain dynamics.

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We thank the interviewees who brought their valuable insights to this article. We also thank R. Kleijn for his contribution to improving the quality of this work. G.A.A.-H. and A.S. acknowledge the financial support from The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability.

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    Glenn A. Aguilar-Hernandez, Catrin Böcher & Xiaoyang Zhong

  2. Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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Aguilar-Hernandez, G.A., Singhvi, A., Böcher, C. et al. Building resilience in high-tech supply chains. Nat Electron 6, 546–548 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-023-01015-w

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