
Making nothing or something: corporate Fab Labs seen through their objects as they cross organizational boundaries
Fuller, Matthew; David, Albert (2017), Making nothing or something: corporate Fab Labs seen through their objects as they cross organizational boundaries, IPDMC, IPDM Conference
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Communication / ConférenceDate
2017Conference title
24 th Innovation and Product development Management ConferenceConference date
2017-06Conference city
ReykjavikConference country
IcelandBook title
IPDMCPublisher
IPDM Conference
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Fuller, MatthewDauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
David, Albert
Dauphine Recherches en Management [DRM]
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.Subjects / Keywords
Organisational boundaries; corporate Fab Labs; open innovationRelated items
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