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Will 3-D Printing Cause Traditional Manufacturing to Collapse?

Harvard Business Review

Through the Industrial Research Institute ’s foresights study — IRI2038 — several plausible scenarios of the future of R&D were explored. At the high end are premium products developed by specially formed R&D communities that are working on solving the big challenges of the 21st century. A Low End of ‘Beta Tests’.

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Sell Your Product Before It Exists

Harvard Business Review

While most startups who set up pages on Kickstarter, Indiegogo or a host of other crowdfunding sites are looking to hit a specific goal and then get started making their project a reality, a new crop of businesses are using the platform for as a wholly different business model: selling their product before it exists.