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This book identifies, analyzes and discusses the current trends of
digitalized, decentralized, and networked physical value creation
by focusing on the particular example of 3D printing. In addition
to evaluating 3D printing's disruptive potentials against a broader
economic background, it also addresses the technology's potential
impacts on sustainability and emerging modes of bottom-up and
community-based innovation. Emphasizing these topics from economic,
technical, social and environmental perspectives, the book offers a
multifaceted overview that scrutinizes the scenario of a
fundamental transition: from a centralized to a far more
decentralized system of value creation.
Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D
printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation
communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation. As
these communities spur a fruitful exchange of explorative, open
source knowledge, they represent a novel mode of "doing
innovation", which considerably differs from established practices
in market and business realms. Hence, the people that participate
in these collective endeavors often develop entrepreneurial
ambitions and start to exploit community-based innovations
commercially. The book presents deep insights on the institutional
idiosyncrasies of innovation communities, the associated dilemma of
entrepreneurship and the strategies of 3D-printing startups to face
the corresponding challenges.
This book identifies, analyzes and discusses the current trends of
digitalized, decentralized, and networked physical value creation
by focusing on the particular example of 3D printing. In addition
to evaluating 3D printing's disruptive potentials against a broader
economic background, it also addresses the technology's potential
impacts on sustainability and emerging modes of bottom-up and
community-based innovation. Emphasizing these topics from economic,
technical, social and environmental perspectives, the book offers a
multifaceted overview that scrutinizes the scenario of a
fundamental transition: from a centralized to a far more
decentralized system of value creation.
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