This document discusses the benefits of introducing a 3D printing lab in a business school. It argues that such a lab would allow students to quickly and cheaply prototype product designs, closing the gap between designers/engineers and entrepreneurs. With access to 3D printing, students could produce high-quality minimum viable products in days rather than months, transforming entrepreneurs into better designers through an iterative customer discovery process. The document predicts that within 5 years all schools will have 3D printing labs, just as all schools gained computer labs in the 1980s, once their benefits became clear.

1. A 3D PRINTING LAB IN A BUSINESS SCHOOL?

2. ENGINEERS and...

3. DESIGNERS...

4. GRIND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TO A HALT

5. BRIDGE THE GAP

6. REMEMBER THE 1st COMPUTER LABS

7. IN THE EARLY 80's, MOST COULD NOT UNDERSTAND, WHY?

8. BY 1990, EVERY UNIVERSITY HAD ONE

9. TODAY IS 1982

10. 5 YEARS - ALL
SCHOOLS WILL HAVE
3DP LABS

11. RAPID PROTOTYPING

12. ENTREPRENEURS BECOMING DESIGNERS

13. CUSTOMER DISCOVERY & DESIGN THINKING

14. FEEDBACK LOOP IS 3 DAYS NOT 3 MONTHS

15. TO ITERATE ON DESIGNS

16. BEFORE 3DP LABS
• Students had minimal resources to prototype
• Only those with previous artistic ability designed quality
prototypes
• Gap in our program that could be overcome

17. LACKED FUNDS & TIME TO WORK WITH ENGINEERS
Providing SBUS students with 3D Printing resources will
exponentially elevate their ability to design and create
advanced prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP)

18. STUDENTS HAD MINIMAL RESOURCES TO PROTOTYPE
Current ENTR students struggle to produce quality MVP's with
limited available resources

19. SO WE INTRODUCED 3D PRINTING

21. 1 PRINTER WAS NOT ENOUGH

22. NEXT WEEK WE INSTALL 35 3DP's

23. TRANSFORMING ENTREPRENEURS INTO DESIGNERS
• To conduct Customer Discovery
• Produce High Quality M.V.P. (Minimum Viable Product)

24. NOT REPLACING ENGINEERS / DESIGNERS
• Necessary after the prototyping phase
• Creating entrepreneurial designers

25. ELIMINATING THE
GAP BETWEEN
ENGINEERS /
DESIGNERS AND
ENTREPRENEURS /
STUDENTS

26. ENABLING MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION TO BURN
• Rather than die waiting for a return call
• Or large invoice to heavy to get a project off the ground
• 3 months becomes 3 days

27. 3D PRINTING LAB IN A BUSINESS SCHOOL
If an MVP is equivalent to 1,000 slide decks. Beautifully
designed MVP's will raise the bar of our Startup teams by an
order of magnitude; From great Startup ideas to fundable
Startups.