Abstract
The current approach for many manufacturing enterprises is to centralize product development, product production, and product distribution in a relatively few physical locations. These locations can decrease even further when companies off-shore product development, production, and/or distribution to other countries/companies to take advantage of lower resource, labor or overhead costs. The resulting concentration of employment leads to regions of disproportionately high underemployment and/or unemployment. As a result, nations can have regions of underpopulation with consequent national problems such as infrastructure being underutilized, and long-term territorial integrity being compromised (Beale, Rural Cond Trends 11(2):27–31, 2000).
The original version of this book was revised. An erratum to the book can be found at DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2113-3_21
This chapter is based on VTT Working Paper 113 Digiproneurship: New types of physical products and sustainable employment from digital product entrepreneurship, by Stephen Fox & Brent Stucker. The terms “Digiproneurship” and “Factory 2.0” were first introduced in this paper, which is archived at http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/workingpapers/2009/W113.pdf
An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2113-3_21
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Beale CL (2000) Nonmetro population growth rate recedes in a time of unprecedented national prosperity. Rural Cond Trends 11(2):27–31
Fox S (2003) Recognizing materials power: how manufacturing materials constrain marketing strategies. Manuf Eng 81(3):36–39
Drucker PF (1993) Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles. HarperCollins, New York
Toffler A (1970) Future shock. Bantam Books, New York
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Gibson, I., Rosen, D., Stucker, B. (2015). Business Opportunities and Future Directions. In: Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2113-3_20
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2113-3_20
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4939-2112-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-4939-2113-3
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)