The costs of 3D printing have rapidly fallen and have thus provoked new interest in this technology, which by itself does not pose a revolutionary challenge. Prima facie, it seems to present a fitting analogy to the extreme price declines in computing that Christensen described as the...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Koordination und Kollaboration von Entwicklern in 29 Open Source Projekten empirisch. Dazu werden Analyseverfahren und standardisierte Messwerte aus der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse angewendet, um Einflussfaktoren und Variablen zu identifizieren welche die Art und Weise der...

A large, and purportedly increasing, number of research fields in modern science require scholars from more than one discipline to understand their puzzling phenomena. In response, many scholars argue that scientific work needs to become more interdisciplinary, and is indeed becoming so. This...