Open innovation: in February 2022 a group of experts from MARIN and the wider maritime sector developed three innovative concepts for maritime crash barriers to avert collisions with wind turbines. See www.
marin.nl/news/crash-barriers
‘Learn to fail fast if you want to succeed sooner’
Design innovation researchers have developed a ‘Design Thinking process’ to first understand user needs, translate them into concepts and finally test user experiences in a short cycle time. The idea is that you have to ‘Fail Fast’ if you want to ‘Succeed Sooner’ (David Kelley, Stanford University). Our basins and simulators can be an excellent environment to realise short, iterative cycles to improve concepts and test new prototypes. At the same time, creating successful innovations is not just about applying a Design Thinking method or process: you have to develop a critical mindset and ask yourself at the end of the design sprint: ‘Is it good enough?’ (Jeroen van Erp, Fabrique). Jeroen opened the Innovation Seminar with a refreshing view and showed us the latest perspectives on system innovation.
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splash zone. HMC presented its experiences and showed how the MARIN workshop and tests helped the company successfully install an offshore wind farm.
What did we learn from the Innovation Seminar? The aim of the Innovation Seminar was to share experiences about innovation in general and to discuss MARIN’s current and future role. We created an inspiring event where our clients and innovation experts shared their ideas. We learned that innovation is about interactions and taking the time to truly understand the needs of the end user. This can be the case for one client specific product development, but it is also about the innovation of the maritime industry system as a whole. And for sure MARIN can play a role in connecting people, facilitating the learning process and adding expert knowledge.
With our basins and simulators we can create a controlled environment to swiftly learn what does and doesn’t work in a relatively
short cycle. But for a successful innovation it is not just great technology that defines success. It is also about a cooperative process and a wider acceptance of the final result. As an independent organisation we can invite experts from other fields in design sprints to bring in the right knowledge at the right time. Additionally, with our Maritime eXperience Lab that is under construction, we will be able to let professionals experience different solutions in real-life situations.
At the end of the day, the seminar showed that there was a very positive response to this new role for MARIN. We know that we are not there yet, there are further steps to be taken. We are learning together with the industry to accelerate innovation for a sustainable use of the sea!
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