Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central question the present paper aims to address is whether and to what extent the emergence of 3D printing technology indeed urges us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this...

Digital technologies have created new markets and disrupted many others. As a consequence, many firms are operating in a highly turbulent and transformative business environment where senior executives are often drawn into the hype that new digital technologies create (North and Oliver, 2014)....