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The Future of Additive Manufacturing: A Delphi Study Predicting Trends and Developments for 2030
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Author: Ruth Jiang, RWTH Aachen U.
Author: Robin Kleer, RWTH Aachen U.
Author: Frank T. Piller, RWTH Aachen U.
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Additive manufacturing (colloquially: 3D printing) is a highly discussed topic today. Previous research has argued that this technology will have profound effects for manufacturing businesses, but also society as such, demanding new corporate strategies and policies alike. Thus, the development of reliable future scenarios is key for strategic planning and decision making as well as for future research. Still, dedicated academic studies in this field remain scarce. We present the results of an extensive Delphi survey on the future of additive manufacturing with a focus on its economic and societal implications in this paper. Via an initial round of extensive qualitative interviews and a Delphi-based analysis of 3,510 quantitative estimations and 1,172 qualitative comments from 65 experts, we were able to develop two scenarios on the future of AM. Our first scenario is built on those Delphi projections with the highest consensus on the likelihood of occurrence, the second on the expected highest impact on the firm level. We present these scenarios in and conclude with a number of implications for industry, policy, and future research.
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Search Terms: additive manufacturing | 3d printing | Forecasting
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Paper is No Longer Available Online: Please contact the author(s).
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Equity Crowdfunding and the socialization of entrepreneurial finance
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Author: Saul Estrin, London School of Economics
Author: Susanna Khavul, UTA/LSE
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Equity crowdfunding is a financial innovation designed to overcome market failures in entrepreneurial finance. We propose that the architecture of equity crowdfunding platforms allows investors to exploit the complementarity of signaling and network effects in a reduced transactions costs environment. We test our hypotheses using proprietary data about the complete history of actual investor transactions the largest equity crowdfunding platform in the world. We show that the dynamic process in the supply of funds is responsive and adaptive to new information but not explosive. Moreover, our hypotheses on signaling and network effects and their interactions advance the idea that entrepreneurs and investors exchange soft and hard information. We show that unlike hard signals from entrepreneurs, which are discounted, hard information from investors has significant direct effects on predicting the likelihood of successful funding. However, it is soft information from both entrepreneurs and investors that benefits most from network effects.
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Search Terms: crowdfunding | finance | entrepreneurship
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Paper is No Longer Available Online: Please contact the author(s).
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Mobile Health Technologies and Information Privacy: A Citizen Perspective
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Author: Grace Kenny, Dublin City U.
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Mobile Health (mHealth) technologies enable citizens to track a host of health indicators to better manage anything from their fitness to chronic illness. Since their recent emergence, mHealth technologies have experienced massive growth. However, these technologies require individuals to disclose large volumes of personal health data, which can result in concerns regarding the privacy of this data. Many argue that information privacy concerns represent a barrier to the future growth of mHealth, but there is a paucity of studies exploring citizens’ health information privacy concerns. To address this gap in our understanding, this study develops a model to test the relationships between HIPC, trust in mHealth technology vendors, risk in mHealth technology vendors, and intention to adopt mHealth. The model is tested among two nationalities. The direct relationship between HIPC and intention yields mixed and interesting findings. This complex relationship requires further exploration. However, it is evident that HIPC can indirectly influence intention through risk. Harnessing the Information Boundary theory and Protection Motivation theory enables the paper to offer some explanations of the role of information privacy in the sensitive health context. Plans and potential avenues to add to these explanations are also presented in the paper.
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Search Terms: health information privacy | mobile health adoption | protection motivation theory
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Paper is No Longer Available Online: Please contact the author(s).
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Scaling up Telemedicine: Political Behavior in Innovation, Translation and Theorization
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Author: Jannie Kristine Bang Christensen, Aalborg U.
Author: Jeppe Agger Nielsen, Aarhus U.
Author: Jeppe Gustafsson, Aalborg U.
Author: Janne Seemann, Aalborg U.
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The current organizational literature on innovation and change has increasingly adopted the concepts of translation and theorization to understand the dynamic nature of innovation processes. However, much remain to be learned on the significance of institutional complexity, competing demands and interests that may exert influence over translation and theorization during processes of innovation. On this backdrop we emphasize the political dimension of translation and theorization through a conceptual toolkit which understands political behavior as negotiating, coalitions, and legitimacy building. Based on a longitudinal case study (2008-2014) we apply this toolkit to examine how a Danish telemedicine pilot was transformed into a large-scale telemedicine innovation which is one of Europe’s largest telemedicine projects. The paper makes two contributions. First, it provides a rich empirical account of how this transformation into large-scale was shaped by simultaneous translation and theorization efforts in a cross-sectorial collaboration involving political maneuvering, legitimacy building, coalitions and negotiations of multiple interests across a wide range of different stakeholders. Second, we illustrate how political behavior in innovation processes is not automatically a dysfunctional aspect that needs to be “fixed” but rather an intrinsic element of translation and theorization that should be carefully understood by researchers and leveraged by managers and employees.
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Search Terms: Innovation | Telemedicine | Translation
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Paper is No Longer Available Online: Please contact the author(s).
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