Creating Innovative Air Transport Technologies for Europe
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Create Creating innovative air transport technologies for Europe Final RepoRt – OctOber 2010 CREATE – Team Members ASD Romain Muller - Coordinator Patricia Pelfrene ADCuenta Adriaan de Graaff ARTS Dieter Schmitt Bauhaus Luftfahrt Gernot Stenz SenterNovem Gerben Klein Lebbink Guy Gadiot QinetiQ Chris Burton Surinder Kooner John Kimber Consultant Trevor Truman Technische Universität München Peter Phleps The team also acknowledges the assistance provided by Mr Marc Bourgois of EUROCONTROL who was an associate of the team. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 211512. Disclaimer: Although the project has been funded by the European Commission the report expresses the opinion of the consortium and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission. Acknowledgement: The CREATE Team would like to thank all the experts who have taken part in the Workshops organised in the context of the CREATE project and who shared their expertise to get to the results presented in this report. Copyright: The text and the pictures (except those of pages 10, 11 and 13 provided by the Royal Aeronautical Society) belong to the CREATE team. Contact details Romain Muller at ASD, Ave de Tervuren 270, 1150 Brussels - Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +32 2 775 82 90 Create Creating innovative air transport technologies for Europe The report is arranged in 4 main parts: Part 1 - The Executive Summary Part 2 - The Need for Innovation Part 3 - The CREATE Project Part 4 - The Ideas Appendices This report is a standalone document aiming at providing the reader with information on the CREATE project and its findings. It contains the main elements of the deliverables generated throughout the project and which are more detailed in nature. I. II. ThE ExecutivE Summary ThE need foR innovatioN A Summary of the Project ..................6 1. The History of Innovation ...........12 Conclusions and Recommendations 2. The New Challenges ....................14 of the Project .......................................8 3. The Pressing Need........................15 4. A Concept for Innovation ...........17 4.1 The aim of the CREATE approach .................................. 17 4.2 The Elements of an innovation stimulation process .................. 18 4.3 A European Process? ............... 18 TABLE I. OF CONTENTS III. Iv. ThE CREATE project ThE Ideas 5. Developing the CREATE process .. 22 9. The Creative Ideas established by the Duxford Workshop...........58 5.1 The Step-wise Development Plan ................... 22 10. Ideas used for the assessment 5.2 The Background to Innovation test in the CREATE process ..........76 in the Framework Programmes .............................. 22 6. The CREATE Process Components ................................23 6.1 The CREATE Process – an overview .............................. 23 6.2 Creative Workshops ................. 24 6.3 The IDEA Portal ........................ 27 6.4 Innopedia ................................. 32 6.5 Technology Watch ................... 35 6.6 Assessment ............................... 40 6.7 Incubation ................................ 45 6.8 IPR and the CREATE Process .... 48 7. Implementation Issues .................48 7.1 The CREATE funding agency ... 49 ThE Appendices 7.2 The Management of the process ........................... 49 Appendix A: 7.3 CREATE in Framework 7 .......... 49 Initial arrangement and Ranking 7.4 Development within of Criteria for Assessment .............. 84 Framework programme 8 ....... 51 7.5 Engaging the Aviation Appendix B: Community ............................... 51 Main System Attributes; Marking Format .............................. 85 8. Conclusions and Recommendations ................52 Appendix C: Assumptions and Costs for operating an innovative system 8.1 The Creative parts .................... 52 based on CREATE ............................ 87 8.2 The Structured Mechanisms .... 53 8.3 Management, Appendix d: Costs & Funding ....................... 54 IPR and the CREATE Process. .......... 88 I. The Executive Summary A Summary of the Project narrow, important part of the whole. It does not displace any other routes to innovation but This is the final report on the CREATE project augments them. (Grant Agreement 211512) of FP7 under designation “AAT-2007-7-4: Stimulating radical It aims to stimulate novel changes to the technological changes”. This was initiated aviation system with particular attention to following an earlier path-finding, but limited, those that are cross-sector, transformational project called “Out of the Box”. in their implications, and concerned with the long-term future aviation system. ‘Innovation’ The CREATE project studied and tested all is a very broad topic and covers every kind of the steps necessary to take ideas for radical novel change from the smallest amendment changes in air transport to actual research. to a business process up to the most radical, far-reaching, often technologically based This is called the CREATE process. application of a new idea. It is important, therefore that the boundaries of the CREATE It includes the mechanisms to encourage process are understood. concepts and ideas to be put forward, providing assistance for their development The background to innovation in this Report and extension, allowing additional data and briefly covers the historical pressures for constructive views to be brought to their change in aviation and explains how these support and for the idea to be set out in a pressures have changed and become more developed proposal for assessment for its integrated in their application to the air suitability for research. The initial stage of transport system. The Report shows that the research is called incubation. high benefit, high risk class of innovations described above as the focus for the CREATE Five mechanisms were addressed: Creative process effectively has no mechanism by Workshops, an Innopedia web-based which they can be studied for potential use discussion process, Technology Watch to in the long term future. The reasons for this introduce new technological opportunities, are explored and related to the current and the IDEA Portal to assist originators to use future challenges that the air transport system these facilities and to develop their ideas will face. The need for a new mechanism and the Assessment process for impartial is explained - one which will address this review. Each of these is described in detail in particular set of innovations and allow them to the report. be studied and tested for validity as potential elements in a future air transport system. The CREATE project set out to define, test by demonstration and refine each of the Most novel ideas face hostility and it is no CREATE process components except that it different, is perhaps even more accentuated, was never the intention to carry out a trial in this particular sub-set. Given the radical of the incubation process given the cost and nature of some of the ideas it is likely that they length of time that this would take. However, would face premature and negative decisions. this apart, all the processes have been tested To overcome this the key process element for their suitability for implementation is seen to be an “incubation” stage. This is and, where appropriate, the work needed comparable to a nursery for children; the child to implement them has been defined. In is allowed to grow in a protected environment, two areas it is concluded that the processes to acquire greater knowledge free of demands examined should not be implemented with for performance. Eventually, of course, the public funds, the establishment of the wiki- child must meet the demands for performance, based Innopedia and that of Technology competition and choice but the period in the Watch. In the area of incubation contracts nursery equips them to meet these forces. no test has been carried out, nor was one Incubation as a concept is a parallel to this. It intended in the project description. However, will provide a protected environment where the the preliminaries to such a contract and the viability of an idea can be studied, expanded management of it have been studied and are and developed to the stage where it can reported. provide comparable credibility to established evolutionary ideas. In one respect, however, the The CREATE process is concerned with incubation stage is unlike a nursery. If the work innovation in aviation. It does not seek to to develop the idea shows that it cannot work address all kinds of innovation but a relatively then the incubation should be stopped. 6 THE EXECUTIVE I. SUMMARY The report contains examples from the many The CREATE Process is now defined using the (more than 130) aerospace ideas that have parameters proposed in this report. It is clear been put forward by workshop delegates from the work done in the CREATE project that and others and these accounts illustrate the a number of significant issues, not intended range, relevance and scope of the possibilities to be embraced by this project, need to be they saw for the future. These ideas were not taken forward if the CREATE process is to be further explored but a limited number of them established as a stable, long-term mechanism were used to test case some of the CREATE that can satisfactorily address the gap in process elements. They are included to provoke innovative progress that has been identified. the