Abstract
50 years after Apollo’s events, while space industry has good perspectives of evolution, return to the Moon is a major undertaking with many purposes. This paper provides an analysis on what could be an optimum model of development for the Moon economy, taking into consideration wide range of objectives. Our study relies on the concept of business ecosystem by James Moore, its structure and challenges. Finding its source from an ecological meaning, it highlights nature of interactions and allows a deep analysis of features to build a viable framework. Through authors and reviews, demonstration points out the importance of collaboration and innovation, both in business ecosystem theory and space industry. We establish then a concrete model based on three hypothesis. The first one defines creation process for lunar ecosystem, and second one establishes basics of collaboration within the ecosystem. Finally, we use fundamentals of entrepreneurship ecosystem, variation from original Moore’s concept, to set our model structure. Critical analysis highlights limits and missings of our development, while looking for alternative reflections on what could be the framework of the Moon economy.
