The First (Beer) Living Lab: Learning to Sustain Network Collaboration for Digital Innovation

The Beer Living Lab was the first of a series of living labs established to analyse and improve complex cross-border trade and logistics challenges using innovative information technology. Unlike stable inter-firm networks where roles are formal and explicit, role taking and role assigning in the Beer Living Lab was highly dynamic. Although...

Mitigating the effects of space debris on composite structures embedding self healing and carbon nanotube nanocomposite materials

The presence in space of micrometeoroids and orbital debris, particularly in the lower earth orbit, presents a continuous hazard to orbiting satellites, spacecrafts and the international space station. Space debris includes all non-functional, man-made objects and fragments. As the population of debris continues to grow, the probability of...