Presentation "Fab Lab Life Cycle & Business Models"; Pieter van der Hijden; Bologna, 2016

Fab Lab Life Cycle

and

Business Models

Pieter van der Hijden msc

http://sofos.nl – [email protected]

Seminar “Open Innovation Economy”R2B - Research to Business 2016

11th International Exhibition of Industrial Research and Innovation

BolognaFiere | June 9th – 10th 2016

Sofos ConsultancyPolderweg 196,

1093KP Amsterdam, The Netherlands

www.sofos.nl – [email protected]

Fab Lab SurinameProf. Kernkampweg 37Paramaribo, Suriname

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Agenda

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Introduction

Fab Lab Life Cycle

Business Models

Introduction

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Concept and photo from Fab Lab Vestmannaeyjar , Iceland

Fab Lab (FABrication LABoratory) concept developed by

Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA)

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

June 2016:

673 Fab Labs

in 87 countries

Global organization: Fab Charter, Fab Academy, Fab Annual Conference

Introduction

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FAB CHARTER (Draft, October 2012)

What is a Fab Lab? - Fab Labs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for individuals to tools for digital fabrication.

What's in a Fab Lab? - Fab Labs share an evolving inventory of core capabilities to make (almost) anything, allowing people and projects to be shared.

What does the Fab Lab network provide? - Operational, educational, technical, financial, and logistical assistance beyond what's available within one lab.

Who can use a Fab Lab? - Fab Labs are available as a community resource, offering open access for individuals as well as scheduled access for programs.

What are your responsibilities?

Safety: not hurting people or machines;

Operations: assisting with cleaning, maintaining, and improving the lab;

Knowledge: contributing to documentation and instruction.

Who owns Fab Lab inventions? - Designs and processes developed in Fab Labs can be protected and sold however an inventor chooses, but should remain available for individuals to use and learn from.

How can businesses use a Fab Lab? - Commercial activities can be prototyped and incubated in a Fab Lab, but they must not conflict with other uses, they should grow beyond rather than within the lab, and they are expected to benefit the inventors, labs, and networks that contribute to their success.

ConceptionEarly

childhoodComing to

age

Fostering new

businessesSurviving

Developing 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year ...

Fab Lab

Life Cycle

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(Source: Infosyncratic.nl; http://bit.ly/whitehousefab)

ConceptionHow to start, paperwork,

funding, and all issues until

the lab goes live

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Create bottom-up

ownership

Introduce

convenient project

management

Develop business

model

Fab Lab Kamakura, Japan

Early childhoodTeething problems,

challenges during the first

year

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Improve daily

operations

Manage your risks

Build a learning

organization

Picture: Safety measures in Fab Lab Tulsa; source: newson6.com (http://bit.ly/Wbs7OL)

Example of a weekly Fab Lab schedule

with a mix of activities

Coming to ageManagement issues, professional PR and

advocacy, service

development

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Develop your

services

Develop your staff

Develop your

organization

Fostering new

businessesSupporting the creation of

new products, processes &

organizations

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Find your position in

the "innovation

market"

Learn from other

Fab Labs good

practices

Count your

blessings

Training course in Fab Lab Paramaribo

SurvivingFunding, business model,

good practices,

community building

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Prepare multi-

annual plan

Organize structural

funding

Think globally, act

locally

Woelab, Lomé, Togo, 3D-printer based on recycled PC-chassis (http://www.woelabo.com/)

[A]

Category

[B]

Year 0 -

actual

situation

[C]

Year 1 -

next

year

[D]

Year 2

[E]

Year

3-5

[F]

Midterm

ambition

Target

groups

Services

Activities

Resources

Revenue

streams

Costs

Business models Vision

Mission

Some suggestions

Business model canvas

Success factors

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Vision

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Source: Maker Impact Summit, 2013

Shared vision on

what is going on in

the world

Mission

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What do

we want to

contribute?

“Some representative players in the Maker ecosystem. Roles and players are constantly evolving.”Maker Impact Summit 2013

Some suggestions

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Source: Maker Impact Summit, 2013

Business model canvas

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CC Business Model Foundry AG – Strategyzer.com

Success factors Start bottom-up

Align with vision and mission

Balance revenues and costs right from the start

Set-up:

Infrastructure management

Knowledge management

Service management

People management

Stimulate client development from general public tinkerer technopreneur

Learn by doing

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References Business model generation; Alexander Osterwalder et al.; self-

published; 2009; available in various languages; http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com; preview 72 pages: http://bit.ly/previewbmg

Hub in a box; workshop to crowdsource business models for sustainable hubs; http://wiki.movement.open.co/hubinabox/

Impact of the maker movement; Developed by Deloitte Center for the Edge and Maker Media from the Maker Impact Summit Dec. 2013; Makermedia and Deloitte, 2014; http://bit.ly/1vt81im

Sustainable Fab Labs; presentation; John Boeck and Peter Troxler; FAB7, Lima, Peru, 2011; http://bit.ly/1oTQY1q

The Fab Lab Life Cycle; report of the Fab10 Workshops (Report); Van der Hijden, Pieter (Fab Lab Paramaribo & Sofos Consultancy) & Juarez, Beno (Fab Lab Lima) et al.; FAB10 International Fab Lab Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 2014; http://bit.ly/fablablifecycle

Think like an innovator; Navaz Karim (ed.); Vigyam Ashram & Fab Lab, India; http://bit.ly/thinklikeaninnovator

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Thank you for your attention!

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Pieter van der Hijden, Sofos Consultancy – 2016 –

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Pieter van der Hijden

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