Over at Nanalyze, the question is asked in a recent article, “Is there a 3D Printing Industry?” Their answer is no. My answer is “Uh doyyy. Look at our header.” Really, what the tech investment blog is getting at is how to categorize the emerging 3D printing field from an investment perspective.
According to Nanalyze, there are two primary ways that the investment community and the SEC classify a business, either using the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) or the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). Under the GICS, there are four levels of classification with 10 Sectors, 24 Industry Groups, 68 Industries, and 154 Sub-Industry Groups. The SIC only categorizes companies based on a single class of industries. And neither have any slot in which to slide the business of 3D printing.…
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