There may be a good reason that so many innovative hardware projects pop up on Kickstarter: 30 percent of industrial designers in the United States are self employed — right around the same number of artists in general that work for themselves. In a report on the state of the industrial design industry, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) points out that $9.2 million was pledged to Kickstarter in 2011 in support of design projects. "Many designers innovate products outside a formal business establishment," writes the NEA. "Funding platforms such as Kickstarter have enabled entrepreneurial designers to obtain capital to explore conceptual ideas and realize new inventions."
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/25/4656884/nea-industrial-design-patents-all-time-high
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