• Intellectual Property
• Free Software
• FabLab
• Digital Fabrication
• Creative Commons.
• Craftsmanship
• 3D printer
• Lean Production
• Maker
• Open Hardware

The increasing widespread of digital technologies, enabled by the Internet and by new kind of rising market, is beginning to influence the global social-economical fabric and the already known production models. In this context, Toyota model early identified those typical relational factors of artisan production, that revealed their extremely high competitiveness in every field of industrial production, regardless of culture background of implementation. The widespread adoption of Pull logic is progressively undermining fordist model and strengthening a production model that could satisfy highly variable, for typology and volume, custumer requirements: Mass Personalization. A network of private and university FabLabs, composed by Digital Artisan, miscellaneous for competences and functions, could be the exponent of such a model and could go beyond the craftsmanship limits, through the capability of doing activity such as research and development. Cultural reflection of MIT, widespread laboratory for research and invention, answer to a grassroots demand, promoting sharing, international solution for the decrease of Digital Divide and knowledge democratization, aimed at the encouragement of local entrepreneurship, exponent of a general revalue of craftsmanship and self-production activities, FabLab is the most innovative institution in the present overview and probably the repository of an advanced Lean approach.