Innovation in the North Sea, Business as Usual?

Peter Young, Arup. Offshore Decommissioning Conference 2015

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Arup

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available at www.arup.com

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What is innovation, where does it come from?

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Where does it come from?

• Enabling

• Enhancing

• Transfer

What is innovation, where does it come from?

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Where does it come from?

• Enabling

• Enhancing

• Transfer

What is innovation, where does it come from?

How does it happen? Who’s job is it?

• Supplier identified through insight

• Supplier identified through execution

• Industry collaboration

• Operator identified and tendered

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• Transfer

• Enhancing

• Enabling

• Operator identified and tendered

• Industry collaboration

• Supplier identified through execution

• Supplier identified through insight

Easier, low risk

Harder, higher risk

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• Transfer

• Enhancing

• Enabling

• Operator identified and tendered

• Industry collaboration

• Supplier identified through execution

• Supplier identified through insight

Easier, low risk

Harder, higher risk

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What can we learn from these industries?

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• Open culture

• Facilitated access

• Flexible procurement

• Collaboration, partnering

• Imagination and courage

Technology transfer requires …

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Seeding and awareness

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• Intrapreneurship

• Rewarding success and failure

• Awareness, sharing challenges

• Open culture

Seeding and awareness

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If you can help us to solve one of our challenges,

deliver our technical strategy or if you have a

novel product or service offering that could make

a big difference to installing, operating and

maintaining rail infrastructure, please come and

meet us at the next Unlocking Innovation scheme

event organised by the Railway Industry

Association.

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Regulation and procurement processes …

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• Enabler

- Can enable rather than inhibit but must be constant or predictable

- Align to facilitate export market, increasing potential reward

- Provide transparency and facilitate market entry

Regulation and procurement processes …

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• Enabler

- Can enable rather than inhibit but must be constant or predictable

- Align to facilitate export market, increasing potential reward

- Provide transparency and facilitate market entry

Regulation and procurement processes …

• Inhibitor

- Show me it’s been done before

- I must be able to competitively tender

- Unpredicatble (FITS)

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Seeding and awareness

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• Intrapreneurship

• Rewarding success and failure

• Awareness, sharing challenges

• Open culture

Seeding and awareness

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If you can help us to solve one of our challenges,

deliver our technical strategy or if you have a

novel product or service offering that could make

a big difference to installing, operating and

maintaining rail infrastructure, please come and

meet us at the next Unlocking Innovation scheme

event organised by the Railway Industry

Association.

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• Incubation support with

- Business case

- Staged review

- Trial facilitation

• Commercial

- Smaller work packages

- Competitions

- Soft loans

• Industry structure

- Overarching strategy; effective events; bodies with defined briefs that do not overlap; open industry and diverse experience base

Stakeholder navigation and support

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To conclude ….