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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  • Join CoFFEE Study 2: Shaping the Sustainable Future Flight in the UK!

    Are you passionate about the future of aviation and its role in creating sustainable ecosystems? Do you have insights into the business, technology, or innovation sectors? If so, we invite you to become a part of the CoFFEE (Co-Creation of Future Flight Ecosystems and Enterprise) project’s Study 2. By participating, you will have the opportunity…

  • Take Part in CoFFEE Studies (recruitment is open)

    Recruitment is now open for CoFFEE’s Study One and Two. We want you to take part and share our call for participants with your network. In Study One, we want to interview aerospace industry technologists, businesses, and social entrepreneurs about their motivations for developing business models. Interviews will be around one hour via video call…

  • We met at the Future Flight Social Science Research Symposium; this is what happened

    The CoFFEE Team met last week to discuss the Social Science research agenda in drones, autonamous vehicles, and community impact. We are inspired by all the incredible work investigating the Future Flight and how we can shape the coming future of transport in society. We look forward to releasing more information in the future when…

  • Why must we Co-Create Future Flight Ecosystems and Enterprises?

    Coprorates can capitalise on Future Flight’s tantalising opportunities by embracing the human activities that sustain communities. Future flight will exceed $600 Billion and disrupt our established mobility and logistics concepts by 2050. From AI-driven flying taxis to delivery drones, these technologies will integrate into the fabric of society worldwide to reinvent capital, change our perception…

  • Can Autonomous Flying Taxis Revolutionise the UK’s Rural Communities?

    The advent of autonomous flying taxis is set to revolutionize how we travel in the UK, potentially transforming the transport infrastructure in rural communities. This blog post will explore how autonomous flying taxis could help bridge the transportation gap in the UK’s rural areas. UK rural communities face significant transportation challenges, with limited public transport…

  • Lets talk about Future Flight stakeholders.

    The UK has strategic interests in exploiting the latest developments in new classes of electric, hydrogen and autonomous air vehicles. Several promising options are available – drones (for powerline inspection, cargo delivery and last-mile delivery of medicines), sub-regional air taxi passenger transport, rural air taxi passenger transport, and urban air taxi passenger transport. These future…