Using FAA-AST’s Economic Impact Research to Guide State Aero/Space Economic Cluster

Development: A Case Study

Jeff KrukinExecutive Director

www.spacefrontierfoundation.org

February 9, 2006

Jkrukin@spacefrontierfoundation.org

800-787-7223 (919-338-0936)

Using FAA-AST’s Economic Impact Research to Guide State Aero/Space Economic Cluster

Development: A Case Study

• Creating a local initiative

• Transition from aerospace industry to Aero/Space Economy

• Combining FAA-AST’s economic impact research with state/regional economic cluster analysis to guide economic development

• The Space Frontier Foundation’s emphasis on economic development

Creating a local initiative

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Creating a local initiative

2007 Research Triangle Park opens the corporate/academic Space Exploration Enabling Technologies R&D Institute

2009 Honda’s business aviation unit in Greensboro begins designing personal suborbital spacecraft, working closely with Triad-based aviation companies

2010 Virgin Galactic begins East Coast space flights from North Carolina

2011 DHL begins trans-Atlantic sub-orbital cargo flights to Global TransPark (renamed the North Carolina Inter-modal Transportation Complex)

2013 Durham’s GE Transportation-Aircraft Engines facility begins manufacturing engines for small commercial hybrid air/space vehicles

2014 Ft. Bragg/Pope Air Force Base complex (“Home of the Airborne and Special Forces”) inaugurates space flight deployment

2015 North Carolina State University opens a permanent North American International Space University campus

2020 NCSU, University of North Carolina, and Duke University operate the first orbiting campus built with Bigelow Aerospace habitats

Present a vision based on local assets and activities

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The Aero/Space Economy in North Carolina

Developing a Strategic Approach Involving the Public and Private Sectors

Support for this workshop is provided to the NC Space Initiative from the NCSU Office of Extension and Engagement and the Kenan Institute for Engineering,

Technology & Science.

NORTH CAROLINA SPACE INITIATIVE

The Aero/Space Economy in North Carolina May 10, 2005

Creating a local initiative

White paper at www.spacefrontierfoundation.org

Transition from aerospace industry to Aero/Space Economy

Transition from aerospace industry to Aero/Space Economy

(2) Some researchers classify this group of North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes as an aerospace cluster rather than the aerospace industry. Distinguishing an “industry” from a “cluster” is a subjective exercise.

Transition from aerospace industry to Aero/Space Economy

(4) This is just one of several possible aerospace-related clusters. Another possible aerospace-related cluster, composed of enabling technologies, is suggested in the Aldridge Report.

Transition from aerospace industry to Aero/Space Economy

The final and most extensive level is the Aero/Space Economy, which is far more encompassing than “industry” or “cluster.”

North Carolina (as well as the nation and the entire world) was once primarily an agrarian economy, where input to and output from agriculture permeated and influenced all (or most) other economic (and social) activities. The agrarian economy was replaced by an industrial economy, which is transitioning to the knowledge economy.

The stage is set for federally driven aerospace activities to become increasingly commercial, thus creating the foundation for an emerging Aero/Space Economy.

Combining FAA-AST’s economic impact research with state/regional economic cluster

analysis to guide economic development

Combining FAA-AST’s economic impact research with state/regional economic cluster

analysis to guide economic development

Technology Clusters in NC (1) -matches with- Space Enabling Technologies (2)Chemicals/plastics Advanced structuresPharm./medical technology Biomedical risk mitigationIndustrial machinery Planetary in situ resource useInformation tech./instruments Autonomous systems and roboticsInformation tech./instruments Scientific data collection/analysisCommunication services/software High bandwidth communicationsAerospace All 17 identified technologies

Comparison of NC Technology Clusters with Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration

(1) Tracking Innovation: North Carolina Innovation Index 2003. North Carolina Board of Science and Technology

(2) Report of the Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy. President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, 2004 (aka, The Aldridge Report)

Combining FAA-AST’s economic impact research with state/regional economic cluster

analysis to guide economic development

The Space Frontier Foundation’s emphasis on economic development

The Frontier Enabling TestOur definition of a "frontier enabling" technology or policy is one which has as its effect the acceleration of the creation of low cost access to the space frontier for private citizens and companies, enables or accelerates our use of space resources, and/or accelerates the rate at which wealth can be generated in space.

In other words, is the project or policy going to provide a return on the national investment, if we define "return" to be the economically sustainable human habitation of space?

"While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore, the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives, in the sense that they relate to or are dictated by present and future human needs." – Lunar visionary Kraft Ehricke, 1970

The Space Frontier Foundation’s emphasis on economic development