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Making nothing or something: corporate Fab Labs seen through their objects as they cross organizational boundaries

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Date
2017
Dewey
Organisation et finances d'entreprise
Sujet
Organisational boundaries; corporate Fab Labs; open innovation
JEL code
O.O3.O31; M.M5.M54; M.M1.M12
Conference name
24 th Innovation and Product development Management Conference
Conference date
06-2017
Conference city
Reykjavik
Conference country
Iceland
Book title
IPDMC
Publisher
IPDM Conference
Year
2017
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/16618
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Author
Fuller, Matthew
1032 Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
David, Albert
1032 Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
Type
Communication / Conférence
Abstract (EN)
As large firms pursue their quest to support NPD and fuzzy front-end activities within their organizations, some have recently opted to create “corporate Fab Labs”. These spaces, which regroup an innovation-oriented community and provide any employee with a physical setting and open access to digital fabrication tools are also the birthplace of objects. A lingering and recurring question among practitioners and decision makers is: what do these objects represent? In terms of innovation, are they something, or nothing?This paper is an initial response to these reactions and develops a theoretical and empirical study of objects made in corporate Fab Labs. Building upon empirical data collected from a series of photos, we contribute a rudimentary tool for identifying the maturity of corporate Fab Labs as their objects cross three organizational knowledge boundaries: syntax, semantic, and pragmatic.

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