June 2017
European space business incubators and accelerators
...clustering of young businesses fuels the growing appetite for space technology investment from business angels and ... of space industry activity in this area is a network of incubators managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) operating across Eu ...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
...in technology start-ups - having been the CEO of two medical diagnostics companies - and in technology transfer and business incubation. From 2002 until 2014, Paul headed up development of STFC’s National & Innovation Campus model and was responsible...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... from the European Space Agency (ESA). Now signed up to compete a feasibility study as part of the space agency’s Business Incubation Programme (BIC), Solein could become a staple food supplement for Mars-bound spacecrafts. “The conditions in Mars...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... using space data and providing new services. One example has been ESA’s Business Incubator scheme to help establish and grow new business by locking newcomers into its network of support centres. The UK has joined The Netherlands...
04 October 2018
Space cluster launch takes UK beyond the final frontier
..., the Lunar Hopper and enjoyed tours of two of Westcott’s newest facilities, the 5G Step-Out Centre and Business Incubation Centre, which are both run by the Satellite Applications Catapult. The Space Cluster, based at Westcott Venture...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
..., easily folded and unfolded travel cot. As a spin-off of the Said Business School in Oxford, Oxford Space Structures successfully applied to the ESA Business Incubator Centre (BIC) at Harwell Oxford after winning a ‘hackathon’-style event for...
