September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
...marketplace and honing industrial competitiveness. Finally, the circled is closed by bringing space technologies back to Earth, through ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme, to spread the benefits of innovation to wider sectors of industry and society...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
.... The idea of a soothing or stimulating effect on the mind and body was inspired by the cooling technology developed by the ESA Technology Transfer Programme (TTP) for astronauts’ suits. This subsequently generated spin-offs in innovative protective...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... businesses and enterprises. India’s space agency (ISRO) is encouraging its private sector and entrepreneurship via technology transfer initiatives and development of complete end-to-end space systems. China’s private space industry is also on the...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
...related to space patents, whereby people believe that since the technology is in orbit the research can be considered confidential and... that the growth of patent filings and potential technology transfer from the space sector has great potential for ...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... and our international partner space agencies have continued to facilitate this type of development through their ongoing technology transfer and spin-off programmes. These agencies work in partnership with companies and aid organisations to deploy...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... since become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s first two decades was primarily technology transfer from countries such as the Soviet Union. Starting in the 1990s, however, China began to provide launch...
