ESA Investment Forum: interview of entrepreneur Vincent van Wylick, AquaCinema
ESA’s Investment Forum took place in Stuttgart, Germany, 19 May 2010. At the forum investors looking for promising opportunities in space spin-offs meet 28 young entrepreneurial companies looking for financing to start their businesses.
The Forum was organised by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO) and managed by Europe Unlimited.
At the Forum we spoke with entrepreneur Vincent van Wylick, Director of AquaCinema. The start-up company AquaCinema is hosted at ESA Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
For more information on AquaCinema, please please contact:
Vincent van Wylick
www.aquacinema.com
ESA Business Incubation Centres
ESA’s business incubation is one of the major initiatives of the Agency’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO). As part of its endeavour to encourage the transfer and commercialisation of space technologies, four ESA BICs have been set up in the Netherlands, Darmstadt and Oberpfaffenhofen in Germany, and near Rome in Italy. The centres support selected entrepreneurs with comprehensive commercial and technical assistance to help them start up businesses that use space technology in non-space industrial, scientific and commercial fields.
ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office
The main mission of the TTPO is to facilitate the use of space technology and space systems for non-space applications and to demonstrate the benefit of the European space programme to European citizens. The office is responsible for defining the overall approach and strategy for the transfer of space technologies, including the incubation of start-up companies and their funding.
For more information, please contact:
ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office
European Space Agency
Keplerlaan 1
2200 AG, Noordwijk ZH
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 71 565 6208
Fax: +31 71 565 6635
Email: ttp@esa.int
