TN02: Evaluation Guidelines Development - Disruptive Technology Search for Space Applications

Kurzfassung

This Technical Note (TN) reports on Work Package 3000 of the proposal, which is the Evaluation Guidelines Development. The aim of this Work Package is to develop evaluation guidelines for Disruptive Space Technology (DST) candidates, using a theoretical framework. It fits within the overall project structure as the evaluation Guidelines Development part, as highlighted in the overall structure of the project depicted in Figure 1. In this figure, the second chapter focusses on a literature study, which evaluates the different tools and techniques used for evaluating and forecasting technologies. The third chapter involves an evaluation criteria resulting from a literature review of DTs. The fourth chapter describes and evaluates a list of criteria resulting from the theory in Chapter 3 and the Theory of DSTs from TN01. The fifth chapter combined the highest rated methods and criteria in a customized DST evaluation method.