The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation 3D Printing

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 agains

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Jan-Peter Ferdinand Ulrich Petschow Sascha Dickel Editors

The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation 3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development

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Jan-Peter Ferdinand Ulrich Petschow Sascha Dickel •

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The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation 3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development

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Editors Jan-Peter Ferdinand Institute for Ecological Economy Research Berlin Germany

Sascha Dickel Technische Universität München Munich, Bavaria Germany

Ulrich Petschow Institute for Ecological Economy Research Berlin Germany

ISSN 2196-8705 Progress in IS ISBN 978-3-319-31684-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31686-4

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Preface

This volume attempts to grasp the current rise of 3D printing and discuss the technology’s impact on the future of value creation, which we assume will reveal increasingly decentralized and networked properties. The initial motivation for this joint endeavor came about in a research project conducted by the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOEW) with generous financial support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; grant number: 16/1615). Situated at the intersection of decentralized production technologies and sustainable consumption patterns, the project clearly revealed the many facets of 3D printing and multiple social and organizational innovations that accompany the proliferation of this technology. The contributions in this book take up these facets as starting