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This address carried the hand-written site index of the research project that published on this domain. That notice spoke for another organisation and could not be reproduced under our name, so the address stays alive and the text below is ours. The current version lives at /about/.

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:

How the site is paid for

Placements are bought: a third party pays for a link inside an article, and that article is published as it was supplied. Such a page says so on itself, above the text, and the link is the whole of the deal.

Nothing else here is sold: no paywall, no subscription, no advertising network.

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.