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What I will tell you today:
Business of floating technology
Approach in EU collaboration
Experiences with EurekaBuild
Who sees business?
Business Case Rotterdam
Business Case Greenhouse
Business Case Infrastructure
Business Case Maldives
Floatec Context
Source ECTP (Bourdeau, Maas) ¨Risks: flooding… • 100 major damaging floods between 1998
and 2004 • 700 deaths in Europe and half a million
people displaced since 1998 • Protection and repair of damage costs € 40
billion each year. Planned to increase up to €100 billion in coming years¨
Technological Objectives
• Increase buoyancy, whilst reducing material need and cost to produce floating structure
• Increase stiffness, durability and peakload resistance of floating structure
• Increase flexibility of shape for specified applications and flexibility for production processes, e.g.: modular, thinner, mouldable, detachable.
Thus: • LIGHTWEIGHT • MODULAR
Applications
FLOATEC process
Creation: structured with human touch
Progress: adaptive towards business environment
- Financial crisis -> delay - Business case -> re-scoping & acceleration
Outcome instead of Output: • Business cases • EU RTD portfolio: Floodprobe, BEEM-UP,
Re-Model, etc.
EUREKABUILD: PROs & CONs
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Hitchhiking vs Trainride
+ Vehicle for collaboration, not bag of subsidy money
+ Shared interest partners & programme: flexible, empathic programme reps that allow more business focus RTD. ‘carrots’
- Different interests & commitments: Dura Vermeer with Min. EZ (NL) and Acciona with CDTI (ES)
- Less structured, less ‘sticks’ - 3 proposals
Recommendations EB
Cultivate Individual & Joint strategic interest: e.g. towards business cases.
Process management to: (a) Align application process (b) Stimulate progress in ‘slow’ times (c) Seize opportunities to create ‘acceleration’
