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Turning space technology into business
 
23 September 2009

CEMS Seminar students at ESTEC
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ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office, ESA Human Spaceflight’s Erasmus Centre and Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University (RSM) organised together the one-week Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) seminar for business management students to learn about space technology and its exploitation potential. It took place in September 2009 at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The students had to prepare business plans for a given space technology to be used in non-space fields. In parallel the students were given lectures on entrepreneurship, technology transfer and new venture creation.

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CEMS students at work at Erasmus Centre, ESTEC
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CEMS students working at ESA Human Spaceflight’s Erasmus Centre at ESTEC

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The winning CEMS seminar team
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At the CEMS seminar, the winning team defined a profitable niche market for a space technology in the food process industry. Their business plan would result in a positive cash flow in just 5 years.

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Technology Transfer Programme Office Business Incubation
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