A future vision of Eindhoven Airbase

Giving growth a strategic direction towards 2050

Master thesis (2018)

Authors

I.I. Dijkstra Industrial Design Engineering

Contributors

S.C. Mooij (mentor)
R.G.H. Bluemink (mentor)
M. de Pee (mentor)
Faculty
Industrial Design Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering
Copyright: © 2018 Ingeborg Dijkstra
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Published Date

04-04-2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Abstract

This Master thesis is about a future vision of Eindhoven Airbase, where growth is given a strategic direction towards 2050. As a result, a strategic innovation roadmap and the detailed implementation of this is evaluated.

Eindhoven Airbase is part of a complex decision-making system, where multiple stakeholders are involved. The research in this thesis provided insights about the wants and needs of the internal- and external stakeholders and shows relevant trends and developments concerning the (military) aviation context. The design challenge is formulated as follows: “How can Eindhoven Airbase create sustainable operations towards 2050?”. This design challenge is tackled by the Vision in Product Design approach (Hekkert & van Dijk, 2011), where a context vision for Eindhoven Airbase in 2050 is created. The context vision resulted in a concept, containing three specific recommendations for Eindhoven Airbase and two external stakeholders, namely Eindhoven Airport and Eindhoven city. These recommendations (i.e. centred coordination, a specified circular economy and joint innovation team) are included in the strategic innovation roadmap.