Technology Transfer Track Posters
ESA
Spark Funding
ESA Spark Funding projects concern the design of a product or service, alongside the design of a business model and roadmap towards commercialisation. They also involve investigations towards derisking, from technical, operational and business angles.
ESA Spark funding is primarily targeted at SMEs or larger entities who generally already have existing product lines.
These companies are:
- looking to innovate and gain a competitive advantage through integrating space technology into their products or to create new products, targeting non-space industry.
- looking to innovate and gain a competitive advantage through integrating non-space technology into their products or to create new products, targeting space industry.
ESA
OSIP – Open Space Innovation Platform
ESA files patents with the goal of protecting the European space industry. Patents prevent others claiming credit to our work, allowing European companies to use them free of charge for space use and to reinforce ESA’s position.
ESA makes its intellectual property available on a freely licensed basis to European space companies within the Agency’s 22 Member States. For use by companies outside of ESA Member States, or for non-space applications, a different licensing model is in place, allowing ESA to request royalties.
As one of the few agencies operating across all space sectors, ESA’s portfolio ranges across subjects such as radio-frequency payloads and systems, structures and pyrotechnics, electromagnetic technologies and techniques, materials and processes, robotics, optics, electrical power, propulsion, and much more.
The objective of this call is to assess ideas for the technical and commercial maturation of ESA’s inventions in view of its future commercialisation as part of a product or service. This will allow industry to benefit from developments made by ESA staff.