Conveners
Session 6: Working with external partners
- Mark Casali (ESO)
- David Lumb (ESA)
- Ed Mitchell (ESRF)
Description
The science community including institutes and universities are the “customers” for the mission products, but also the “providers” through national funding, of instruments and other components of a mission. There are frequently tensions in this conflict between customer and provider and we provide a brief description how this works well or fails.
Ed Mitchell
(ESRF)
21/05/2014, 09:00
ESRF, as a User Facility, has two kinds of interactions with industry: a/ as a user and b/ as a KTT partner. Both aspects involve Project Management and the issues and challenges will be addressed.
David Lumb
(ESA)
21/05/2014, 09:30
Development of products from launchers to spacecraft and sub-systems is usually done by industry according to well-defined contractual arrangements. This can be difficult to complete for more speculative research contracts. We describe some particular challenges of this relationship.
