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

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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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hal-01629696 , version 1 (06-11-2017)

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Matthew Fuller, Albert David. Making nothing or something: corporate Fab Labs seen through their objects as they cross organizational boundaries. 24 th Innovation and Product development Management Conference, Jun 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland. ⟨hal-01629696⟩
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