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Fab labs : places for sharing to boost innovation

Authors: Fabio CRUZ, Alaa HASSAN, Hakim BOUDAOUD

Publication date: March 10, 2023

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2. Why a fab lab?

After clarifying what a fab lab is, we propose in this section a few avenues to shed light on the "why" of fab labs, and more precisely what led to their emergence, then we answer the "for what" and specify the goals sought when creating and the main functions of these spaces.

2.1 The different functions of fab labs

It is possible to identify three main types of function for fab labs , illustrated in figure

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