Next generation Manufacturing: the Mediterranean Fab Lab case study.

The main purpose of the paper is to outline a new entrepreneurial horizon targeted by the raising of a new way of manufacturing that could be defined as hi-tech handicraft. Currently, the business studies have gathered up the empirical application of technology advances in the way to estimate the effect produced by the networking and crowdsourcing on to production process. The paper focuses on the growing importance of digital manufacturing and fabrication laboratory network. The proposed research model is a case study approach, looking at the Mediterranean Fab Lab of Cava de’ Tirreni (SA).