SiME

The SiME project makes the system-oriented innovation process for the energy and mobility-oriented conversion of metropolitan regions itself the subject of research. The implementation of holistic system innovations in the mobility and energy sector has so far fallen well short of expectations. Market conditions and specific value creation configurations on the market, ecological and social challenges, individual usage habits, the latest knowledge and technologies developed elsewhere as well as the relevant political and regulatory framework have not been sufficiently taken into account in the transformation of energy and mobility systems. However, the ambitious goals of the mobility and energy transition cannot be achieved with incremental innovations. In addition, the development of holistic solutions requires transdisciplinary and cross-domain cooperation, including new partners from Business Studies and science. In order to meet these system development requirements, it is necessary to systematically analyze barriers in this process, specify development requirements and develop instruments and methods based on systems engineering in order to create an open and integrative innovation process. The aim of the SiME project is to work out a holistic orientation for a functional future energy and mobility system, to gain a better understanding of the barriers to the transition to such a system with a high degree of novelty and to develop a practice-oriented design instrument on the basis of systems engineering and to test it systematically in an explorative process using the Ruhr metropolitan region as an example.