Innovation lessons from 3-D printing

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 43-52

  De Jong, Jeroen P J ^a   De Bruijn, Erik ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Ultimaking Ltd   (Netherlands)

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1. In newspapers and magazines, 3-D printing has been described enthusiastically as everything from "the technology that could re-shape the world" to "one that is about to transform every single aspect of our lives." See, for example, S. Richmond, "3D Printing: The Technology That Could Re-Shape the World" The Telegraph, July 28, 2011;
2. H. Lipson, "3D Printing: The Technology That Changes Everything" New Scientist, July 30, 2011, p. 20.
3. C. Anderson, "Makers: The New Industrial Revolution" (New York: Crown Business, 2012): 14.
4. N. Gershenfeld, "How to Make Almost Anything: The Digital Fabrication Revolution" Foreign Affairs 91, no. 6 (November-December 2012): 43-57.
5. T. T. Wohlers, "Wohlers Report 2012: Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing State of the Industry, Annual Worldwide Progress Report" (Fort Collins, Colorado: Wohlers Associates, 2012). This annual report elaborates substantially on the 3-D printing industry, technologies and trends.
6. Ibid., p. 133. See also "Stratasys and Objet Complete Merger" Stratasys press release, December 3, 2012, http://investors.stratasys.com/ releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=724378.
7. E. de Bruijn, "On the Viability of the Open Source Development Model for the Design of Physical Objects: Lessons Learned From the RepRap Project" (master's thesis, Tilburg University, 2010).
8. Wohlers, "Wohlers Report 2012" p. 137.
9. C. Baldwin and E. von Hippel, "Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation" Organization Science 22, no. 6 (November-December 2011): 1399-1417.
10. P.B. Meyer, "Open Technology and the Early Airplane Industry" (presented at the Economic History Association 2012 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 21-23, 2012).
11. E. von Hippel, S. Ogawa and J.P.J. de Jong, "The Age of the Consumer-Innovator" MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 1 (fall 2011): 27-35.
12. See www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/stratasys-inc-history.
13. A. Afuah, "Innovation Management: Strategies, Implementation, and Profits" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
14. S.K. Shah and M. Tripsas, "The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship" Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 1, no.1 (November 2007): 123-140.
15. E. von Hippel, "Democratizing Innovation" (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2005).
16. For an extensive discussion, see Shah and Tripsas, "The Accidental Entrepreneur"
17. Industries can be characterized as user-contested and/or user-complemented markets. The nature and mi-croeconomic effects of innovating users in both types of markets are discussed by C. Raasch and E. von Hippel, "Modeling Interactions Between User and Producer Innovation: User-contested and User-complemented Markets" working paper (June 2012).
18. See http://ssrn.com/abstract=2079763
19. For a detailed discussion, see Raasch and von Hippel, "Modeling Interactions."
20. These strategies were partly identified by S. Flowers, "Harnessing the Hackers: The Emergence and Exploitation of Outlaw Innovation" Research Policy 37, no. 2 (March 2008): 177-193.
21. See von Hippel, Ogawa and de Jong, "The Age of the Consumer-Innovator."
22. A similar finding was reported by L. Dahlander and L. Frederiksen, "The Core and Cosmopolitans: A Relational View of Innovation in User Communities" Organization Science 23, no. 4 (July-August 2012): 988-1007.
23. E. Mollick, "Tapping into the Underground" MIT Sloan Management Review 46, no.4 (Summer 2005): 21-24.
24. 3D Systems recently sued Formlabs, a new venture offering a home use system printing high-resolution metal parts. See www.3ders.org/articles/ 20121121-3d-systems-files-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-formlabs-and- kickstarter.html. Although Formlabs did not originate from the RepRap community, the case is also marked by negative responses from home users: see http://lucept.com/2012/11/24/3d-systems-suing-kickstarter/, accessed on November 28, 2012.
25. See Wohlers, "Wohlers Report 2012" p. 118.
26. Y.M. Antorini, A.M. Muñiz and T. Askildsen, "Collaborating With Customer Communities: Lessons From the Lego Group" MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 3 (spring 2012): 73-79.