ESINET Road Show

Thursday 8 December 2011 | BRNO | Czech Republic

Observatory and Planetarium Brno

From space to non-space: Discover new business opportunities in space related technologies

Objective: To promote the huge potentials offered by space related technologies as well as space applications (products and services).

For who: Every company (existing or to be created) that might use space applications or technologies in connection with space in other fields.

• Programme (pdf, 3MB)

Space technologies and their applications in all sectors represent dynamically growing market worldwide. Although space research is aimed primarily at exploring the space, many of the results are widely used in daily life. Some of the commercial applications include for example satellite navigation systems, data communication systems and Internet, monitoring cameras, weather forecasting, enriched baby food, water purification, fuel cells, medical implants, composite materials and insulating materials.

Space is an extremely productive technology stimulator. ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO) has successfully transferred over 200 space technologies to non-space sectors for applications as diverse as cooling suits for a Formula 1 racing team, packaging system for potato crisps, and ground penetrating radar to detect cracks in mine tunnels. The co-operation within the Central European region called Centrope that includes bordering regions of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia should create favourable environment for opening the transnational technology transfer.

ESINET Road Show is aimed mainly at spin-off, start-up, small and medium sized companies, researchers and students, who are interested in the latest space technologies that can be further developed in new innovative applications in non-space industries.

ESINET Road Show is hosted by South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC).