“…In EU: Germany (Bölt et al, 2000;Gerber et al, 2004;Neuberta et al, 2004;Roth et al, 2005;Jähn et al, 2006;Müller et al, 2006;Ackermann, 2007;Jaehne et al, 2009;Kampker et al, 2010;Ganß et al, 2011;Lau et al, 2011), Belgium (Vancza et al, 2011, Hungary (Schuh et al, 2008), Portugal (Camarinha-Matos et al, 2001;Pinto Leitão, 2004), Netherlands (Camarinha-Matos et al, 2007), Spain (Giret et al, 2009), Italy (Villa et al, 1998;Corvello et al, 2007;Manzini et al, 2011), Greece (Assimakopoulos et al, 2003) and Croatia ; in USA (Leigh Reid et al, 1996;Sturgeon et al, 2002); in China (Hongzhao et al, 2005), Japan (Yamawaki, 2002) and South Korea (Choi, 2005); in Columbia (Micán et al, 2011) and Brasil (Lima et al, 2011). However, only few concepts (models) have been completely developed to be implemented in practice.…”