Part 1. Incremental Innovations and Technologies Pushed to their Limits -- Chapter 1. Incremental Developments of Processes, Machines and Materials -- Undertaking non-layered stereolithography -- Optimizing the light supply within a single-photon process -- Transparent window -- Gaseous interface -- Simultaneous two-photon absorption -- Challenging the notion of layers -- Addition of prefabricated structures -- Proof of concept -- Synthesis -- Optical-quality surface finish -- Glasses lenses and contact lenses -- From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing -- Microlenses -- Direct lens manufacture --Multi-mode optical fiber -- Cold-cast metal 3D printing -- Electrolytic deposition -- Metallic ink -- Laser processes -- Photochemistry -- Silver metal -- Conducting polymers -- Colored objects -- Part 2. Additive Manufacturing Pushed to its Limits -- Chapter 2. æ-Fluidics (or Microfluidics) -- Review of microfluidics -- Applications -- Return to additive manufacturing -- Comment 1: LIFT process (Laser-Induced Forward Transfer) -- Comment 2: FEBID process (Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition) -- Other methods -- Hybrid methods -- Conclusive outcomes -- The converse problem: a potential æ-fluidics application to additive manufacturing -- 3D sintering -- Deposition of polymerized particles -- Provisional concept --Chapter 3. 3D Nanomanufacturing, 3D æ-Electronics and æ-Robotics -- 3D nano-facturing -- Smart material: so-called "DNA origami" -- Return from additive manufacturing to standard methods --Comment: nanomaterials and additive manufacturing -- Conclusion -- 3D æ-electronics -- 2D or 3D electronic circuits -- Subtractive/additive coupling -- æ-Electronics -- Conclusion and aspirations in the sphere -- Actuators and æ-robots -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 3. How Should We Go That One Step Further? Chapter 4. A Short Reflection on Spheres to Explore Their Conditions for Achieving Success -- Introduction -- Favored spheres of innovation -- How to know where we must anticipate this technology? -- Opportunities -- Some conditions to ensure additive manufacturing reaches maturity? -- Moreover where does additive manufacturing sit within this interdisciplinarity framework? -- Observations -- Some possible solutions? --Proposed solutions? -- A positive conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5. Questions of Hope and "Unhope" -- The "lab-tribe" (LT) approach -- Context elements -- From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing -- Some results -- Scientific excellence" -- Financing and the orientation of research -- Prospective opportunities for the research unit -- Collective projects? Risky projects? -- Creativity's place in research -- Support to creativity? -- But all the same, strong brakes on creativity -- What to do? -- Innovation, a consequence of creativity -- Academic system -- Between productions resulting from science and responsible conscience -- Engagement toward a future focused on innovation? -- Caught between two chairs? Between more than two chairs? -- Innovation as scientific production: is it born of freedom? What freedom? -- What solutions to evoke for additive manufacturing? -- General framing -- And if the history of additive manufacturing in France were examined in light of these comments? -- A bit of creativity? -- In the form of a conclusion: a summary of the author's point of view -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Index.