The issues surrounding the transformation of value creation range from product design, production systems, and their control, to questions of social, economic, and ecological sustainability, to the international transferability of concepts of digital production, their transfer into business models, and effects on the respective socio-technical systems.

The experts of the New Production Institute research and evaluate the approaches to open source hardware, circular economy, sustainable innovation, sustainable manufacturing, communities, and commons-based peer production in various research and application projects as a working group on value creation systems of the Laboratory of Production Engineering of the Helmut-Schmidt University.