Bringing space technology to the maritime sector: Managing innovation across boundaries
- Paper number
IAC-20,B5,2,9,x61353
- Author
Dr. Christina Giannopapa, Greece, Ministry of Digital Governance of Greece
- Year
2020
- Abstract
Innovation typically occurs at the boundaries between disciplines and specializations, involving the creation, combination and recombination of knowledge. Yet, sharing and (re)combining knowledge among actors and organizations from different domains is challenging. To enable innovation, organizations thus have to manage these domain specific knowledge boundaries. Yet, under novel circumstances, there is often a lack of common knowledge to effectively assess and share knowledge at a boundary. The space and maritime sector have similar sustainable ambitions and face similar technological difficulties, providing numerous occasions for learning, collaborating and creating economic and societal value. Commercializing space technology through applications within the maritime sector offers many high‐potential opportunities worth exploring. Yet, at the present time, there is no systematic overview of such opportunities for crossovers between space and maritime and relevant actors in the maritime sector are not clearly defined. A qualitative research design is appropriate in view of the complex, dynamic nature of processes to share and address knowledge, involving multiple organizations. For the in–depth case study, selected organizations where involved in bringing space technology (satellite data) to the maritime sector, i.e. involved in the process from ‘raw’ satellite data to finished products and services in the maritime market. The data consists of questionnaires, interview data and archival data. The results of this study give insight into the processes and challenges of managing innovation when knowledge needs to be shared and assessed by organizations from the space and maritime sector. These challenges include both the identification of involved organizations and their roles, as well as the identification of knowledge boundaries and the development of effective activities to cross these boundaries.
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