Building Growth with Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing — also known as 3-D printing — was developed in the 1980s and began moving beyond costly industrial manufacturing applications in the late 2000s when it was taken up by the open-source and do-it-yourself movements. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review takes a closer look at this disruptive technology, which is on the verge of going mainstream.

Special Collection includes:

• Choosing scope over focus, by Richard A. D’Aveni
• Getting past the hype about 3-D printing, by Jaime Bonnín Roca, Parth Vaishnav, Joana Mendonça, and M. Granger Morgan
• The killer app for 3D printing? The circular economy, by Gregory Unruh
• Supply chains built for speed and customization, by ManMohan S. Sodhi and Christopher S. Tang
• Innovation lessons from 3-D printing, by Jeroen P.J. de Jong and Erik de Bruijn