The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction to the Edited Volume

   • Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Ulrich Petschow, Sascha Dickel

   Pages 1-6

3. Economies of 3D Printing–Reorganizing Manufacturing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. The Multiple Applications of 3D Printing: Between Maker Movements and the Future of Manufacturing

      • Sascha Dickel, Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Ulrich Petschow

      Pages 9-26

   3. Bottom-up Economics. Foundations of a Theory of Distributed and Open Value Creation

      • Tobias Redlich, Manuel Moritz

      Pages 27-57

   4. Can Open Source Hardware Disrupt Manufacturing Industries? The Role of Platforms and Trust in the Rise of 3D Printing

      • Sebastian Spaeth, Piet Hausberg

      Pages 59-73

   5. A Critical View of 3D Printing Regarding Industrial Mass Customization Versus Individual Desktop Fabrication

      • Jürgen Bertling, Steve Rommel

      Pages 75-105

4. Communities of 3D Printing–Makers, Entrepreneurs, Outlaws

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Fabrication Laboratories (Fab Labs)

      • Peter Troxler

      Pages 109-127

   3. Open Source Hardware Startups and Their Communities

      • Robin P. G. Tech, Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Martina Dopfer

      Pages 129-145

   4. Distributed Manufacturing in the Shanzhai-Schumpeterian Innovation State

      • Johan Söderberg

      Pages 147-160

5. Futures of 3D Printing–Trajectories and Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Materializing Digital Futures

      • Sascha Dickel, Jan-Felix Schrape

      Pages 163-178

   3. 3D Printing as Driver of Localized Manufacturing: Expected Benefits from Producer and Consumer Perspectives

      • Christoph Ihl, Frank Piller

      Pages 179-204

   4. Assessing the Environmental Impact of Decentralized Value-Chain Patterns Involving 3D Printing Technologies—A Comparative Case Study

      • Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Heike Flämig, Ulrich Petschow, Michael Steinfeldt, Anton Worobei

      Pages 205-235

   5. How Decentralized Technologies Can Enable Commons-Based and Sustainable Futures for Value Creation

      • Ulrich Petschow

      Pages 237-255

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.  

• 3d printing
• FabLabs
• collaborative production
• decentralized manufacturing
• future of manufacturing
• maker movement
• sustainable manufacturing

• Inst for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin, Germany

  Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Ulrich Petschow

• Friedrich Schiedel-Lehrstuhl Wissen, Tech Univ München, München, Germany

  Sascha Dickel

Jan-Peter Ferdinand is a sociologist who currently works at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research and Technische Universität Berlin. His research addresses the nexus of emerging technologies and novel modes of distributed innovation, like e.g. the idiosyncrasies of community-based innovation or entrepreneurial dynamics in open source contexts.

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.

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