The Science of the Thingiverse Design Remix

Four researchers from Germany decided to explore the online design platform Thingiverse and determine just where all of the designs came from, and recently published a scientific article about what they discovered under a Creative Commons license, so anyone can read and use its contents.. They investigated how Thingiverse users are able to reuse existing designs to make new ones - this is known in the 3D printing community as remixing. The researchers investigated four different aspects of the remixing practice, in order to form a set of "theoretical propositions and managerial implications." Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/185160/thingivers...sign-remixing/

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The paper shows that remixing is a vitally important part of the success of Thingiverse, as over half of its available designs are based in remixes.

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Not something I'd previously considered.
But I've done a few I guess.
Put more original designs up than remixes.

Wouldn't have put it as vitally important though. But hey, that's what academics are for :-)