Overview
- Describes fundamental shifts in techno-economic paradigms, with a focus on manufacturing
- Outlines the potentials of digitalization and decentralized technologies for new business models
- Develops a framework for new modes and sites of participative value creation like open innovation, FabLabs, hackerspaces, open source hardware etc.
- Pursues an interdisciplinary approach that yields multifaceted findings with relevance for researchers and practitioners alike
- Highlights emergent sustainability issues concerning new decentralized technologies and outlines governance options
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in IS (PROIS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Economies of 3D Printing–Reorganizing Manufacturing
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Communities of 3D Printing–Makers, Entrepreneurs, Outlaws
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Futures of 3D Printing–Trajectories and Applications
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ulrich Petschow is an economist and is head of the environmental economics and policy unit at the Institute of Ecological and Economic Research in Berlin. His research topics include the governance of new technologies, environmental policy and paths towards sustainable development, with a special focus on new collaborative models of consumption and production. He has participated in the publication of numerous books both as author and editor.
Sascha Dickel is a sociologist and political scientist. As a senior researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (TU Munich, Germany) he investigates techno-social transformations of communication, production, and culture. His current research areas are posthumanism, citizen science, making and engineering. For his PhD thesis on technological utopianism Sascha Dickel received the Philosophical Book Award 2014. Since 2015 he is a member of the working group on additive manufacturing and 3D printing of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation
Book Subtitle: 3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development
Editors: Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Ulrich Petschow, Sascha Dickel
Series Title: Progress in IS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31686-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31684-0Published: 24 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81095-9Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31686-4Published: 14 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2196-8705
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8713
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business IT Infrastructure, e-Business/e-Commerce, Sustainable Development, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Operations Management