Turning space technology into business

23 September 2009
For the fifth time, ESA hosted this month the one-week CEMS kick-off seminar for students from leading European management schools to learn about technology transfer and what it takes to turn space technology breakthroughs into viable non-space businesses.
 
Organised by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office in cooperation with ESA Human Spaceflight’s Erasmus Centre as well as the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University (RSM), the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) seminar gives students the chance to work with space technology and to discover its exploitation potential.

CEMS is a strategic alliance of leading European business schools and multinational companies and its first mission is to set a global standard of excellence for university master students in business management.  

Niels Eldering, Technology Transfer Officer at ESA and member of the jury, commented, "space business is very international, as well as entrepreneurial. The European space community requires business and technical professionals to work together on a daily basis, especially when it concerns exploitation of space based technologies in new markets. These CEMS students proved to be capable of doing just that. They really came up with bright, unexpected ideas." [  http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM62VJIWZF_index_0.html]


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