CoFFEE

Co-Creation of Future Flight Ecosystems and Enterprise

Welcome to The CoFFEE Project

Aviation is critical in developing the UK’s economy and how we live. After all, aviation has enabled cities, including Denmark’s Legoland (in otherwise secluded Billund), to become ‘experience’ destinations.

Future Flight can only enhance the UK’s sustainable society and strengthen the economy when individuals, innovation ecosystem stakeholders, and local communities adopt these new technologies. Without understanding the emerging innovation ecosystem, stakeholder networks, and technology implementation, Future Flight will likely fail. Therefore, we ask:

  • How the motivations of aerospace industry technologists, businesses, and social entrepreneurs influence the emergent FF business models,
  • How innovations can be co-developed by technologists and local communities to achieve social and environmental sustainability,
  • How the emerging FF ecosystem can be nudged toward viable, safe, and sustainable business models which have low, or even positive, environmental impacts.

We achieve this through interviews, workshops, and case studies involving over 100 local communities, policymakers, aerospace industry technologists, businesses, social entrepreneurs, and NGOs.

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  • Watch CoFFEE’s latest Webinar on Business Models and Future Scenarios

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  • Future Flight is Here!

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  • WEBINAR: Sustainable Future Flight Business Models: Motivations and Barriers

    Date: 6/11/23 Time: 13:00 – 15:00 Location: Online Cost: £0 Join us for an eye-opening webinar as part of the Leicestershire Business Festival, where we delve into the exciting world of Future Flight business models and their pivotal role in shaping the future of aviation. This is an event that no forward-thinking business in Leicestershire…

  • How To Use Drones for Deliveries (a video guide)

    This short animation has been created as part of the E-Drone research project. It provides a a short introduction to the use of drones in logistics to help people reflect on what this might mean for them and wider society.

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