Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables mass customization and has thereby the potential to revolutionize traditional … manufacturing. In this paper, we examine how the adoption of AM affects competition and welfare in traditionally standardized … excessively large. Based on these findings, we discuss policy implications for the manufacturing industry. We recommend …

This paper endeavors to construct an evaluative framework to assess the level of development in advanced manufacturing … agglomeration on the development of advanced manufacturing by employing a moderated mediation model and the Spatial Durbin Model … manufacturing, with particularly pronounced effects in the eastern region of China and the 18 provinces that already possess …

This paper assesses how the local institutional environment affects the internationalization of manufacturing small …-scale enterprise data. The authors find that the internationalization of manufacturing SMEs was influenced by several institutional … environment on SMEs in different manufacturing industries. Heavy industries rely more on the costs of entry and time costs, while …