CNES TCC :an open innovation tool ingested in corporate internal culture

Paper number

IAC-16,D5,2,8,x34758

Coauthor

Dr. Hélène BEN AÏM DRIEUX, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

Year

2016

Abstract

CNES set up "knowledge clubs " named “Technical Competence Centers”  (TCC) in 1998 to bring together specialists (from CNES, research, industry, universities, etc.) in networks that focus on the main scientific and technical disciplines used in Space. TCC organize every year from 50 to 80 free seminars and workshops which experts can participate by simple registration on http://cct.cnes.fr/.      TCC main goals are to promote the opening of space technologies to other sectors, to take account of advances in space technologies and other sectors, to contribute to expertise and innovation, to produce and share knowledge, to identify news skills and expertise, be a privileged place of dialogue and to foster cooperation.
These multidisciplinary and transversal networks survive to successive CNES reorganizations, keeping a kind of freedom management and initiative, and enlarging its field of intervention mainly to increase cross-fertilization between space sector and non-space sector (aerospace, defense, automobiles, etc...  Today named “Technical Competence Communities”, there are currently 18 network  gathering around 3000 experts.  Even if industries and universities partners actively participate (40%), most of event organized by CCT (seminar, workshop, tutoring, ..) have keep a regional influence around Toulouse.   CNES also has to deal with its low expert tuner over, using CCT tool to transfer knowledge from experts to younger generations and as prospective ideas sharing place in order to maintain and reinforce its technical excellence at the highest level.
The paper highlights the recent evolution of the TCC in the new CNES Direction of Innovation, Application and science (DIA) to improve: (1)Internal appropriation as an incubator of ideas dedicated to innovation and as knowledge management tool, (2)Process fertilization between road map, technical policy, PhD and post-doctoral studies, and TCC, (3) Enlargement of seminar participation to National, European and from opportunities international dimension, using mainly web conference tools and (4)How to take into account open attitude versus Economic Intelligence

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