| Titre | Frugal innovations and 3D printing: insights from the field | |
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| Auteur | Josip Maric, Florence Rodhain, Yves Barlette | |
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Revue | Journal of Innovation Economics |
| Numéro | no 21, 2016 Grassroots Innovation Processes | |
| Page | 57-76 | |
| Résumé anglais |
In this paper, we present a growing technological sector – additive manufacturing – and discuss its hidden potential as frugal innovation. Additive manufacturing, which is also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, constitutes a recent manufacturing process that builds layers to create a three-dimensional solid object from a digital model. 3D printing technology has been identified as one aspect of the digital revolution that has the potential to revolutionize the industrial world. This topic has been surrounded with a lot of hype when predicting future application scope. In this paper, we focus on 3D printing as a technology that, under certain circumstances of technological transfer via community-operated organizations like fab labs, enables the development of frugal solutions targeting Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) population. At the same time, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion on Frugal Innovations in existing scholar literature.JEL Codes: O32, O35 Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=JIE_021_0057 |
