Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of ESA’s Technology Transfer
Programme Office, (left) with Toon Buddingh’, Manager of ESA BIC
Noordwijk from Dutch company BViT Noordwijk BV, (right) at the opening
of the European Space Innovation Centre (ESIC). The main company in
ESIC is the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) Noordwijk, the first
incubation centre that ESA opened in 2003 as part of its Technology
Transfer Programme Office to spinoff space technology to terrestrial
applications. ESIC is located in the Space Business Park near to ESA’s
ESTEC space research and technology establishment in Noordwijk.