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” (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”).

The paper is divided into two main sections:

  • The first one aims at defining, from an industry point of view, what is “Newspace” and how it is transforming (or would transform) the sector in terms of financing, investing and procurements, by creating new business opportunities and by promoting evolutions in the industrial approach;
  • The second section contains recommendations for the evolution of European public procurement and management processes to enable European (and national) programmes to take advantage of the ongoing evolutions in order to support the competitiveness of the European industry on the world-wide scene.