Yesterday, the European Commission-funded AMable initiative announced its fourth open call to grant €450,000 for SMEs in the Additive Manufacturing field, otherwise known as 3-D printing.

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One of the Amable solutions is to help inventors to protect the rights to their designs using blockchain.

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AMable aims to make new manufacturing technologies available to SMEs to enable them to create new products and generate new business models while saving them time and cost. The AMable platform is trying to provide smaller firms with unbiased access to knowledge of 3D printing processes.

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When a new product is invented, it goes through multiple processes before it is manufactured. This includes design, adding functionality, improvements and making a prototype. In the course of this creative process, the iterations of the 3D designs may get lost, and there is no way to prove ownership of data. In essence, the AMable platform enables inventors to […]

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