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Innovation is a basic condition for the growth of economies. In Europe, the potential to create new business opportunities thanks to space technologies and satellite navigation and telecommunication systems (including GMES & GALILEO) is enormous. SMEs are the main actors to convert worthwhile innovative research & innovation ideas into successful commercial products, to create new jobs and boost the economy. Not only do they represent the majority of enterprises in Europe, but they are also the main source of dynamism and change in new markets.

In July 2002, the European Space Incubators Network (ESINET) was launched by four partners (ESA, EBN, WSL and D’Appolonia), as an experimental platform for the transfer of knowledge and technologies. Today, ESINET has become the leading network of incubators focusing – wholly or partially – on space related technologies used in all sectors. Its members stand for high technology business incubator facilities with a proven track record.

Beginning of 2007, ESA invited EBN, the European Business & Innovation Centre Network, to integrate ESINET as a structural thematic component of the EBN Network and to further professionalize and deploy its operations.

Since 2009, EBN is managing ESINET and implementing the new strategy and offer to members, by increasing the deal flow of information.

EBN is the leading pan-European non-governmental Network, created 25 years ago by the EC and Industry leaders, incorporating several hundreds of Business & Innovation Centres, Innovation-based incubators. EBN is recognized as the home of Innovative Entrepreneurship and Incubation in Europe.

"Networking initiatives such as ESINET are part of our offer to build a critical mass of scientific and technological excellence at EU level in order to create a true European research area"

Philippe Busquin
European Commissioner for Research 1999-2004


	News
	ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) - Next selection (#24) for applicants is OPEN 22/01/2010 The deadline to submit proposals is on Tuesday, 09 February 2010, except for Oberpfaffenhoffen (Feb. 2). Read more ESINET Annual Meeting 2010 & ESINET Best Startup Award 18/12/2009 Hosted by ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk (The Netherlands) 19 January, from 09h00 to 17.30 All EBN/ESINET members are invited to join us, represent their best start-up and meet the TT Broker Network! Read more ESINET Road Show @GRACE Nottingham Geospatial Building, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham 20/11/2009 Find out how you business can benefit from the ESA Technology Transfer Programme 16 December, 9.00 to 16.00 Read more ESA Business Incubation - Applications OPEN #23 28/10/2009 The deadline to submit proposals is on Tuesday, 3rd November 2009. Read more NAVTEQ LBS Challenge EMEA - Register Now 28/10/2009 EMEA Deadline Extended to November 6, 2009 The competition is open to pre-commercialized applications for any platform and device. Read more EBN BIC Master Class Course 22/10/2009 "Excellence in investment readiness and new trends in entrepreneurial support" Brussels, 2 & 3 December 2009 Read more ESA Business Incubation - Applications OPEN #22 25/08/2009 The deadline to submit proposals to the 4 ESA Business Incubation Centres is on Friday, 4th September 2009. If you're product or service is based on a transfer of space technology, and/or utilisation of space system in a non-space environment, do your application NOW. Read more FP7 Space Call 3 published 14/08/2009 The European Commission published by the end of July the third call for proposals under the Space theme, with a budget of €114 million. Deadline: 8 December 2009, 17.00 (Brussels time) Read more ESINET Annual Meeting - 24 June 2009, 14h00 - 15h30 12/05/2009 18th EBN Annual Congress in Fez! 24 - 26 June 2009 “Creative Ideas & Tools for Smart Entrepreneurs” Fez, Morocco 2009 Read more ESA Investment Forum, 7th April 2009, La Hulpe (Belgium) 20/04/2009 ESA Investment Forum (EIF) – 36 companies attended the event, including 6 companies within KIS4SAT. Capital High Tech and HBIC were the KIS4SAT experts invited for the event. Read more ESA Business Incubation Centres 14/04/2009 Read more ESINET - JOB Opportunities 14/04/2009 Read more Permanent Open Call for Technology Transfer Feasibility Study Proposals 19/09/2008 Read more UPDATE - INVESaT tools for incubators and start-ups 04/08/2008 Read more

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