an integrated approach to industry engagement in space technology
- Paper number
IAC-08.E5.1.2
- Author
Mr. Nathan Hill, STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
- Coauthor
Mr. Steve Groves, Qi3, United Kingdom
- Year
2008
- Abstract
An integrated approach to industry engagement in space technology. Government investors in space demand increased broader economic impact. This ‘Knowledge Exchange’ has evolved through several conceptual frameworks over the past twenty years. Agencies are now realising that an integrated approach offers potential for enhanced rates of exchange of technology and skills between the space and non-space sectors. In the ABOTTS report*, the author presented a framework whereby academic technology development, combined with that of the space and allied sectors could contribute to the ESA Aurora programme. This framework also provides a model of the spillover benefits back to science, the space industry and non-space sectors such as security, transport and healthcare. Knowledge Exchange requires four elements, technology mining and requirements capture, broad dissemination, opportunity brokering and strategy development. This talk will examine how these elements are brought together in the UK space context by the STFC KITE Club Knowledge Exchange Service, the ESA Technology Transfer Programme, the Sensors & Instrumentation Transfer Network, the Location Timing Knowledge Transfer Network and the Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation. Case studies will be used to illustrate successful modes of Knowledge Exchange. * Analysis of Business Opportunities for Technology Transfer in Space, BNSC 2004.
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