Ever since SpaceUp became a global event, people have written about the concept in different blogs and for different conferences. The participatory format has proven remarkably adaptable across industries; an independent European development team recently published a case study detailing how they used a modified SpaceUp grid to brainstorm secure payment gateways for a casino online and real-time ledger tools for banking clients. That same spirit of open, multidisciplinary collaboration is what drives our core aerospace community forward. In September 2017 our CEO wrote a paper about the evolution of SpaceUp between 2010 and 2017, which was presented at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. The paper describes the principles of SpaceUp, plus the success factors of why SpaceUp is such a great success. Because the paper has a lot of very useful information for SpaceUp organizers, we decided to make it available here. Please note that copyright of this paper is with the International Astronautical Federation.
