I-made

Institutional Thickness as Strategy for Transition Innovation

B2C Platform for Tailor-made Production in a Sustainable Material Economy

I-made History

• Plan C team: Tailormade production (2008)Serge De Gheldere, Jan Meneve, Ann Segers, Wouter Ulburghs, Karel Van Acker (voorzitter), An Van de Vel, Lieva Van Langenhove, Hans Vercammen)

Contribution: Development of a vision

• Plan C Workshop: 3D-printing (6-9/2009)Rapid manufacturing as driver for local production and material efficient production? (35 participants)Contribution: First exercise to connect vision with real experiments

• I-made innovation platform (10/2009)

I-made: Strategic Positioning

1. Profit: Tailor-made production as a market opportunity

Longtail economy

TippingPointmarket Longtail market

I-made: Strategic Positioning

1. Profit: Tailor-made production as a market opportunity

Technological Innovation: 3D printer

I-made: Strategic Positioning

I-made: Strategic Positioning

2. People: Local Production and Education

• Globalisation Increased the Alienation Process of consumers about how goods and services are made

• Movement to embrace the embeddedness between production in Europe.

Network of local infrastructures for rapid prototyping en –manufacturing

Flanders Region as a social economic pilot area for local production

I-made: Strategic Positioning

3. People: Local Production and Education

Economic Empowerment

Social Empowerment

Political Empowerment

Sensitizing youngsters

I-made: Strategic Positioning

3. Planet : Closing the Loop

Modular design

Upgrading

Closed Loop

Reparation

Institutional Thickness as Strategy for Transition Innovation

EffectuationCausation

Institutional Thickness as Strategy for Transition Innovation

Institutional Thickness