Eurospace Position Paper “Towards a New Approach to Commercialisation, Innovative Procurement & Industrialisation”

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European institutional actors have expressed since a few years the political will to “modernise the space sector”, with the objective to promote also in Europe the effects induced by new approaches to commercialisation, innovative procurement and industrialisation observed originally in the US. This has been reminded in ESA Agenda 2025 itself, which calls for “boosting disruptive innovation in emerging commercial space domains”, and in the “EU Space Strategy” in 2016, which declared that the Commission will be “encouraging the development of commercial markets for new space activities”.

In this context, the European space industry is contributing to these reflections, in our latest paper “Towards a New Approach to Commercialisation, Innovative Procurement & Industrialisation”, available here.

Building also on the recent enlargement of Eurospace membership to smaller and new entities, the objective of this paper is to provide consensual recommendations from Industry in order to help framing European public institutions’ vision and perspective with regard to new industrial and commercial approaches (building on what is often referred to as the “Newspace” or “Space Commercialisation”).