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companies that need outside funding for new products. The most glamorous examples of successes includes the Pebble smart watch, which raised more than $10 million from almost 69,000 backers. In the aviation sector, we have not only had flying cars, drones and various other types of aircraft ventures, but also airlines asking for funding. Not all of these were able to raise funds successfully, but the free publicity they generated also benefited these companies and motivated others with better mousetraps to consider stepping forward. It will be interesting to see if more experimental or core technology ideas seek funding, such as those trying to create lighter materials (for differing types of aircraft product applications), better or more creative lighting applications from LED components, or possibly flexible displays for cabin and cockpit use. The cost to certify aircraft products is considerable, but with the help of crowdsourcing platforms and perhaps NASA (which is trying to help small companies with such problems), we might be able to bring more innovation into our industry. Established industries that experience some type
evolutionary change create opportunities for new companies to step in and innovate to meet the business needs of the changed environment. How much would this benefit the inventor in a garage personally? The early visionaries rarely profit from the innovation they
initiate, and it is the follow-on entrepreneurs who are able to develop profitable ventures once a technology has been ‘stabilized’. Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs and countless other billionaires are prime examples of this. In mature industries where the barriers to entry are high for new entrants, entrenched companies typically step in and buy out promising young companies once a technology is proven out. Such a scenario provides independent innovators with
an ‘exit strategy’, and could motivate those who have an excellent idea but no means of executing it into a finished product to now move forward with it. With the dozens of crowdfunding sites emerging onto the
world stage, this might start an era of innovation which the world has not seen before, and may never again. Let’s hope that this article motivates some of the readers to either start a venture or side project, or help others in reaching their dreams.
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John Pawlicki is CEO and principal of OPM Research. He also works with Information Tool Designers (ITD), where he consults to the DOT’s Volpe Center, handling various technology and cyber security projects for the FAA and DHS. He managed and deployed various products over
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the years, including the launch of CertiPath (with world’s first commercial PKI bridge). John has also been part of industry efforts at the ATA/A4A, AIA and other industry groups, and was involved in the effort to define and allow the use of electronic FAA 8130-3 forms, as well as in defining digital identities with PKI. His recent publication, ‘Aerospace Marketplaces Report’ which analyzed third-party sites that support the trading of aircraft parts is available on
OPMResearch.com as a PDF download, or a printed book version is available on
Amazon.com.
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