TECH TALK
Comparing Innovation Aviation and Aerospace
to Other Industries PART TWO: AERO VS. ELECTRO
(part two). Note that we consider communications as part of this electronics industry, since telecom and networking are wholly dependent upon semiconductor and electronics to drive data, and software to control it. We will also refer to these set of industries as the technology industry below. The intent of this article series is to identify several emerging technologies in disparate industries that cross over or infl u- ence aerospace products.
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CAN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY EVER REGAIN ITS CROWN FROM THE ELECTRONICS/SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES?
When aviation was young and the glamor of fl ight enchanted the world, entrepreneurs fl ocked to this nascent industry and rode the cycles of boom and bust. Fortunes were made and lost and none of this dissuaded thousands of start-up companies from launching new aircraft, components and services on a constant basis throughout the golden years of aviation. Then it happened … middle age … the time when you get more serious about yourself, your paycheck and your future. You take fewer risks, or at least
his two-part article series has explored and com- pared how key innovations in the aerospace/avia- tion industries compare to the automotive market (part one) and the electronics/software industries
By John Pawlicki
you concentrate on measured ones instead. This is essentially where the current aviation and aerospace markets are today. This is not a negative situation, nor one that anyone would want to change, since air transport is one of the safest ways to travel due to this maturity of products, people and processes that make up the industry. The electronics and software industries (which are nearly as tightly bound together as are aerospace and aviation) have long surpassed most other industries as the darlings of innovation (although the biotechnology and medical industries may have strong arguments against this). In fact, many of the recent key developments relating to aviation are dependent upon underlying solutions from the semiconductor, communications, networking, embedded software, sensor-related and memory storage industry niches, which were applied to aircraft-related applications. In fact, it might be a challenge to separate some of these advances and provide complete credit to one industry or the other. The automotive industry is just as dependent upon electronics, communications and software for many of its innovations as well, as is most every other major industrial sector today. In fact, the heart of all advances for most new products todays begins with electronics and software. A recent report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting fi rm, studied
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