“Innovating from Space to Earth” with ESA BIC Austria
Next week the Podim Conference 2019 in Maribor, Slovenia, is the place to be if you are an entrepreneur and start-up with visions of create your own business with the idea to use innovation from Space to Earth. ESA BIC Austria will be there to illustrate the opportunities and how to turn your idea into a new company.
The Podim conference is the epicentre for the regional start-up ecosystem bridging the global and local start-ups in the Alps-Adriatic and Western Balkan Region. It is connecting 1000+ brilliant start-ups, investors, corpos and other stakeholders with global mindsets and leaders, and is serving as an effective platform for investing in the most promising start-ups from the region.
Turn your space idea into a new company
At the DISRUPTION 360 forum in the Turner Hall, 22 May, the ESA Business Incubation Centre Austria General Manager Martin Mössler is one of the keynote speakers addressing disrupting technologies and how they will result in a completely new industry.
Under the title “Innovating from Space to Earth” Martin Mössler will illustrate the opportunities available to entrepreneurs in Europe from space technology and satellite data, and how ESA with its Business Incubation Centres – ESA BICs - help to turn ides into successful businesses.
ESA BIC Austria is always looking for bright new ideas on how technologies from space programmes could be turned into smart innovative solutions down here on Earth.
Mössler is thinking of satellite communications and navigation. But weather forecasting and climate research can also benefit from ESA technology, as well as the development of better solar cells and batteries, where space has always been an innovation driver.
But most of all, Martin Mössler is looking forward to the ideas he has not yet thought of: "If I am surprised and can not initially imagine an application, that is a good sign that this is a truly innovative project."
If you are interested you can also join the round table on "Key challenges in building an start-up ecosystem of the Alps Adriatic Region", where Martin Mössler will illustrate what ESA BIC Austria is doing to help achieving this.
Want to know more: BOOK a MEETING
Get in contact right away at the Podim Conference: book a meeting with Martin and/or one the ESA BIC Austria consultants Dijana and Craig, who are happy to catch up with you on spot!
ESA Business Incubation Centre Austria
ESA BIC Austria opened in 2016 and is managed and operated by the business incubator centre Science Park Graz (SPG) in close partnership with accent Gründerservice.
Drawing on both organisation’s outstanding track record in tech-based business incubation, ESA BIC Austria provides a unique environment geared exclusively to accelerating innovation and unlocking start-ups' commercial potential. With more than 10 years’ experience in business incubation, Science Park Graz and accent have supported more than 200 technology and innovation start-up projects.
ESA BIC Austria is looking for visionary entrepreneurs, researchers, students and contacts from industry, to develop innovative and scalable space-related business ventures. From 2016 to 2020, ESA BIC Austria will select and support 50 start-ups. The incubatees will be hosted in Graz and Wiener Neustadt.
ESA BIC Network: the world´s largest ecosystem for space-related entrepreneurship
ESA BIC Austria is part of ESA’s Business Applications and Space Solutions programme and its network of 20 ESA BICs throughout Europe that co-funds projects and start-ups while offering technical and business support to companies that seek to deliver rapid innovation and raise private investment. Overall ESA spends €400 million a year on strengthening the competitiveness of European and Canadian companies in the global markets not only for satellite communications but also for downstream applications.
The 20 ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) are forming the largest ecosystem in the world for space-related entrepreneurship and have fostered over 700 start-ups throughout Europe. Spread over more than 60 cities in 17 countries, more than 300 start-ups are currently under the two-years business incubation development booster programme with another 180 taking in yearly.
