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ESA Technology Transfer Programme
Over the past 35 years, the European space industry has gained considerable expertise in building, launching, controlling and communicating with satellites. From this long experience in how to overcome the hazards and problems created by such a hostile environment, many valuable new technologies, products and procedures have been developed.
Today, this expertise is improving our daily lives by providing a wealth of innovative solutions for products and services on Earth. Groundbreaking European space technologies are becoming increasingly available for development and licensing to the non-space industry through the process of technology transfer.
In the framework of its research and development activities, ESA spends some €250 million each year and, recognising the enormous potential of the know-how developed within its R&D activities, set up a Technology Transfer Programme in 1990 to exploit the technologies developed as part of the European space programmes.
ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme is largely carried out by a network of technology brokers across Europe and Canada under the auspices and support of ESA’s Technology Transfer and Promotion Office. The task of the brokers is basically threefold:
- to identify technologies with potential for non-space applications
- to ascertain the technological needs and requirements of the non-space sector
- to match available technologies with the non-space needs and subsequently provide assistance in the transfer process.
An important aspect of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme is the European Space Incubator (ESI). ESI, together with its associated network of European Space Incubators (ESINET) is designed to help start-up companies wishing to exploit space-based technologies and expertise get off the ground by providing them with premises, assistance and first stage funding.
Last update: 19 April 2005 | |
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