ИСТИНА

New practices that outsource functions, performed before inside organizations, to network of people (crowd) by open calls for proposals are relatively new phenomena of business process arrangement or even new business-models creation. Those cases of managerial innovations could be called crowdsourcing systems, and provide opportunities for entrepreneurs to reduce classical way of business process arrangement in the form of a firm by hiring employees. At the same time development of technologies for additive manufacturing/prototyping makes agile project management methodologies more relevant for “hard” engineering projects and manufacturing. Both crowdsourcing managerial technologies and additive technologies develop steadily from small scale (laboratory) emerging ones to those that already effect and will radically affect business practices in multiple industries. Combination of rapid developments in these fields, uncertainties related sometimes even to hypes boosted by media around these technologies, lack of application statistics, and promises of these technologies to improve agile and lean management practices create an interesting mix for researchers in entrepreneurial management. In the research through interviews and questionnaires we explore how currently entrepreneurs and business men/women perceive utilization of these innovations for their business development strategies, how discrepancies in perception of these technologies and these technologies capabilities generate entrepreneurial opportunities.