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Abstract

The digital era offers many opportunities to the wind energy industry and research community, and is one of the key drivers for reducing costs and risks over the whole project life cycle. However, a successful exploitation of these opportunities raises a number of challenges, and a recent literature review shows that there is a large gap in the research and development of humanistic aspects to overcome these challenges. This could include, for example, methods for changing organisational culture and techniques for incentivising people to collaborate with each other, particularly between organisations. Based on the results of the above-mentioned literature review, a new method for enhancing data sharing and collaboration in the wind energy sector, called the WeDoWind Method, has recently been developed and tested on a case study. The main innovation of this method is the way it creates tangible incentives to motivate different types of people to actually share data and knowledge in practice. The method was shown to have a high potential to contribute significantly to enhancing innovation and ultimately to reducing costs and risks of wind energy. In this present paper, the strengths and weaknesses of the WeDoWind Method are analysed in detail, based on a survey filled out by participants of the use case study and complemented with observations from the method development team over the last two years. The results of these analyses are then combined into a traditional SWOT analysis, which is finally used to define a new set of practical data sharing recommendations for the wind energy sector.