Despite a long-term decline in the circus industry, Cirque du Soleil profitably increased revenue 22-fold over the last ten years by reinventing the circus. Rather than competing within the confines of the existing industry or trying to steal customers from rivals, Cirque developed uncontested market space that made the competition irrelevant. Cirque created what the authors call a blue ocean, ...

One of the main reasons for the development of space manipulators is to replace astronauts to perform tasks that involving long, repetitive operations and unhealthy, hazardous environment. Due to the particular harsh environment of space and the increasing demands of satellite maintenance, on-orbit refueling and assembly etc., the application of space robot has received significant attention. S...

Schedule slippage plagues the space industry, and is antinomic with the recent emphasis on space responsiveness. The Government Accountability Office has repeatedly noted the difficulties encountered by the Department of Defense in keeping its acquisition of space systems on schedule, and identified the low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of the system/payload under development as a principal ...