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  1. http://www.3dprintingindustry.com/2014/08/13/crowdfunding‐the‐low‐cost‐desktop‐3d‐printer‐part‐6/.

  2. http://www.3dprintingindustry.com/2014/08/14/consumer‐3d‐printing‐serious‐growth‐phase‐according‐photizo-group/.

  3. http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/teg/digital‐fabrication/.

  4. http://www.capturingthevalue.wordpress.com/category/mapping/.

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  1. Chair of Information Systems Engineering, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Frédéric Thiesse & Marco Wirth

  2. Chair of Information Systems I, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Hans-Georg Kemper, Michelle Moisa, Dominik Morar &  Heiner Lasi

  3. Technology and Innovation Management Group, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Frank Piller

  4. Software Business and Information Management, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

    Peter Buxmann

  5. Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

    Letizia Mortara,  Simon Ford &  Tim Minshall

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Thiesse, F., Wirth, M., Kemper, HG. et al. Economic Implications of Additive Manufacturing and the Contribution of MIS. Bus Inf Syst Eng 57, 139–148 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-015-0374-4

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