Part I: Economies of 3D Printing - Reorganizing Manufacturing -- Part II: Communities of 3D Printing - Makers, Entrepreneurs, Outlaws -- Part III: Futures of 3D Printing - Trajectories and Applications.

Many new ventures position themselves along the additive manufacturing (AM) value chain to benefit from the quickly maturing technology. Yet, their business models and sources of value creation are largely unidentified. We compile a unique dataset with 160 entrepreneurial AM-firms using a...

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....