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ESA Business Space Incubators
- Video Tape only
- Title ESA Business Space Incubators
- Released: 08/05/2008
- Language English
- Footage Type
- Copyright ESA
- Description
Space Incubators
ESA TV Exchanges
The space industry covers a large number of technologies that can be used in the non-space sector. Spacesuit techiques, for instance, are used in firemens' jackets or in special baby pyjamas to prevent cot deaths. ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office offers its technical expertise and support to companies wishing to use space technologies, and its Business Incubators initiative can assist startups obtain the necessary finance to market their inventions. This A & B-Roll features several examples with an interview of Frank Salzgeber, Head of ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under :http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS57451.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under :http://esa.contentcoders.com/mphi/INCUBATORS_TV_09-05-08_wmphigh.wmv The same set of files is available on the contentcoders and the e-vision ftp.
More backgroud information can be found on: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEESA business incubators
00:01:00 A-Roll start
00:01:40 Europe invests heavily in space, and scientists and industry amply reap the rewards. But so can fledgling businesses and imaginative entrepreneurs who can envisage innovative applications which re-using technologies originally developed for the harsh constraints of space.
00:02:03 Clip Frank Salzgeber, Head of Technology Transfer Programme Office, ESA
""You know space is addressing technologies which are really on the limit. It has to be light, it has to be robust, it has to be 'remoted', you cann't repair it, its energy consumption has to be controlled, so all subjects that we have at the moment on the market, so we can share our know-how and the same time our test centres and facilities we have. And I think that's quite unique in Europe, and we believe itís a perfect place to support business ideas coming from start-ups.""
00:02:34 Take the pressurised suits which protect astronauts on space walks: multi-layered to withstand the
- Length 12:08:00
- Format DIGITAL BETA
- Commercial Use No
- Producer Ingrid Van de Vijver
- Executive World Wide Pictures