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The Founder of Amazon and Blue Origin Jeff Bezos shared his views on the Entrepreneurial dynamism at IAC in Washington, D.C. It was interesting to listen to him in person. His key thoughts:
- Amazon has been built on existing systems like post offices and credit cards. To achieve this for space we need a reusability to lower the cost of access to space: a real reusability, not a fake one when you decompose everything, inspect and build again. We just need to refuel a vehicle and launch it again - Once you get to space it’s almost unlimited what you can actually do - “Every important decision that I’ve made I made in my heart” - We want to have a BE-3 engine the most used engine in the world. That is what can be achieved with a space tourism - Vertical landing architecture scales extremely well - New Glenn vehicle will be flying in 2021 - Jeff Bezos announced that they put together a national team to go back to the Moon: this time we are not going to the Moon to visit, we are going there to stay Very interesting stories of two well-known cases of highly reputable, but relatively young universities: KAIST (South Korea) and Technion (Israel). The Presidents of both institutions presented their visions within the Island initiative at Skoltech. Their key thoughts: Prof. Sung-Chul Shin, KAIST President: - 20% of faculty members in Korea are from KAIST - Every fourth PhD in Korea has the affiliation with KAIST - KAIST graduates founded 1500 startups - KAIST Vision 2031: global value-creative leading university - AI principle and design application at undergraduate level is a must - Institute of startup KAIST: launched 90 startups - Universities are crucial for national development - The major collaboration occurs at the level of Professors Prof. Peretz Lavie, Technion President: - Necessity is the mother of innovation - The failure should be within the education. The ability to sustain after the failure is very important - Everyone in Israel must serve in Army. As a consequence, the students come to the university in an older age than in other countries - Concerning the Chief science officer. The ideas are evaluated based on one criteria: merit. CSO gives money to startups and the startups must return this money only in case of success - For the last 10 years 95 companies affiliated with Technion were launched. One of the most developed ones, mentioned by Prof. Lavie has an evaluation of $7 billion. Another company was recently sold for $1,5 billion - Students spend more time in R&D centers, than in a classroom - Technion graduates founded 1600 companies (since 1994), 50% of which are still alive - Over the last 10 years Technion got an income of $200 mln from patents - Technion spends around $2 mln per year to keep the patents - “In 1990s we counted papers as KPIs, but we changed this policy - the quality is much more important, as well as the influence on people’s lives” The DSM Community has gathered together for the annual Conference to share the latest results of the Design Structure Matrix applications in industries, entrepreneurial ventures, and academia. The Conference took place in Trieste where we also visited a manufacturing site of Illy, an Italian coffee company specializing in espresso and headquartered in Trieste. It was very interesting to see the manufacturing line and entire coffee product lifecycle. Within the Conference I have presented a paper entitled "DSM-Based Methods to Represent Specialization Relationships in a Concept Framework" co-authored with Prof. Edward Crawley. The paper is available at MIT System Architecture Group website. The City of Space Bremen hosted the International Astronautical Congress which was attended by 6,000 aerospace practitioners from the industry, government, academia, startups, large corporations and venture funds. As usual, the Heads of all major Space Agencies were present at Congress and delivered their speeches there. Our work entitled "Model-Based Concept Framework for Suborbital Human Spaceflight Missions" co-authored by myself and Prof. Edward Crawley has been presented at Technical Session on System Architecture. The paper is available at the webpage of the System Architecture Group at MIT. The program of the visit:
I rent a small room in a close proximity to MIT, so I can commute both by walking or by cycling. We share the first floor of the house together with another researcher from MIT Media Lab and one more friend-of-mine, a very talented musician. The landlords live at the second floor of the house. In general, this is a very common thing in Cambridge. What was my surprise when the landlords invited me to join them at a Thanksgiving day. I was truly touched by this invitation! I had a pleasure to enjoy a real Thanksgiving day and to see how Americans celebrate the most loved day in a year. Thank you very much! This semester I will be working at System Architecture Group at MIT as a Visiting doctoral candidate. I have a very ambitious plan of conducting two case studies here for my PhD Thesis. These case studies will constitute the core part of my Dissertation, demonstrating the utility of the methodology proposed in my research work. I look forward to hard working days, new colleagues, joint research adventures, and productive research work. The DESIGN Society flagship Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Here the design research is discussed and the latest developments are shared among all the actors involved in product development. |
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