About Diginova
Diginova reports on the industrial digital economy: how physical things get designed, printed and moved when the production line behaves like a network, who pays for that, and which rules get written around it.
Sections
The newsroom publishes in five sections.
- Emerging Tech — Industrial data, machine learning on the shop floor and what additive manufacturing actually looks like after the hype cycle.
- Digital Fabrication — The project archive: the research pages, deliverables and seminar material on digital fabrication that were published at this domain by the original consortium, kept at their original addresses.
- Digital Markets — Online gaming, betting and the consumer internet treated as markets rather than as entertainment: who owns the operator, what the licence actually permits, how the product is priced, and which regulator can switch it off.
- Payments & Fintech — Card rails, instant transfers, stablecoins and the compliance work that sits under every checkout.
- Policy & Politics — Legislatures, courts and lobbies deciding what the digital economy is allowed to do.
The archive this domain carries
Before it was a publication, this domain carried the public website of DIGINOVA, a European research project on digital fabrication (Grant Agreement 290559). Those pages are still here, at the addresses they always had: the project’s purpose, its progress reports, seminar and conference programmes, the partner list and 29 documents for download, carrying dates from 2013 to 2025. They are filed under Digital Fabrication and dressed in the current design; what they say has not been rewritten.
We kept them rather than deleting them because they are cited elsewhere and those links still work. What this publication is, and is not, in relation to that project is set out on a separate page.
Older addresses kept alive
Four service addresses of the old site carried notices that spoke for another organisation. We could not republish those notices under our own name, and we did not want the addresses to start returning errors, so each one is still here with our text on it and a pointer to the current page:
- /en/contact.html — the contact page, now at /about/contact/
- /en/data_protection.html — the data-protection notice, now at /about/cookies/
- /en/publishing-notes.html — the imprint and publishing notes, now at /about/
- /en/sitemap.html — the hand-written site index, now at /about/
How the site is paid for
Some articles on this site are paid placements and carry links bought by third parties. They are published as supplied and are not editorial recommendations.
There is no paywall, no subscription and no advertising network on the site.
Writing, and getting it wrong
The rules the newsroom works to — where numbers come from, why articles carry no personal bylines, how corrections are handled — are in the editorial policy. Anything that looks wrong goes to [email protected], and the fastest way to get it fixed is to name the page and quote the sentence.