Recently the emergence of more open innovation models which draw on a greater diversity of distributed knowledge sources often including users and customers has received growing attention not only in academia and industry but also in policy circles. Many governments have launched initiatives to...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D-Printing consists in the "process of joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methodologies". It is a technology that falls under the category of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies....