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INVESaT - News
2nd Europe INNOVA Conference on 22-24 October 2008 in Lyon, France06/06/2008
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The city of Lyon in France will be hosting the 2nd Europe INNOVA Conference from 22 to 24 October 2008, which is organised in collaboration with the French Presidency of the European Union.
The Europe INNOVA Conference 2008 will focus on accelerating innovation in Europe and how to optimise knowledge transfer, strengthening industry's innovation capacity through strategic partnerships and supporting innovative entrepreneurs.
You can register online, download the programme and get more information about the event at:
| 17th EBN Annual Congress, "Helping new talents to grow"23/04/2008
17th EBN Annual Congress
Helping New Talents to Grow!
Budapest, Hungary
25-27 June 2008
You can register now!
Friday 27th - Congress day 2
Workshop 8 ESINET Award
Bringing 'Space & Sat' technologies down to earth, the ESINET incubation experience
INVESaT Open Space Newsletter, 5th edition04/03/2008 
Discover event and networking opportunities for the "Space & Sat" community in the months ahead!
A very hyperactive period is coming; almost every week our community will be busy with workshops, trainings, networking opportunities and events: Investment Forum at ESTEC, NAVOBS+ workshop, ESA Road Shows hosted by ESINET members, EBN XVII Annual Congress and the new challenging activities of the newcomer KIS4SAT project.
Please, click here to download the newsletter INVESaT Open Space Newsletter, 4th edition23/10/2007
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How to do business with Galileo / GMES?
Find out about the answers of the INVESaT experts to the question, read about the first training session organised for the incubators of INVESaT and ESINET, and make sure you won't miss any future networking opportunity of the "space & sat" community.
| INVESaT WIKI - 7.000 requests per day09/07/2007The online tool INVESaT Wiki has become a true success story: "After 18 months of project activities, we count around 7.000 user accesses to the Wiki website evey day", says INVESaT partner Raimondo de Laurentiis from D'Appolonia, the Italian company which created the online research tool. And the number of information requests is still growing every day!
INVESaT WIKI is a dynamic online tool providing entrepreneurs in the space industrial sectors with an information platform describing the sector of activity, in particularly in GMES, GALILEO and telecommunication areas.
Re-Launch of the ESINET Network09/07/2007
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Canterbury/ Kent, 20 June 2007
The Launch of the
New ESINET Network
took place at the
EBN 2007 Annual Congress GLOBAL INNOVATION BRIDGES - A new Generation of Business & Innovation Centres
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The Congress reassessed the primary mission of ESINET, which is to stimulate and support entrepreneurship in the area of new services or applications emerging from the creative use of space technologies and/or systems in non-space sectors.
Interested in participating in the ESINET Network?
Please contact EBN: Vera Hölzenbein - email vho@ebn.be - tel. +32 2 761 10 88 INVESaT Open Space Newsletter, 3rd edition01/06/2007
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In this edition of the INVESaT Newsletter, you will find a special about the ESA Investment Forum of April 24th 2007, organised by the ESA Technology Transfer Programme in cooperation with the Europe Innova partner networks INVESaT & FinanceSpace.
We also invite you to read more about the new ESINET network and to join us at the Kick-off of the new ESINET at the EBN Annual Congress in Canterbury / Kent, June 20th 2007.
| INVESaT call for competencies addressed to innovative companies16/02/2007
Encouraged by the successful launch of the networking activities and the expert work within the INVESaT project (recently awarded by the EC as Europe INNOVA Network of the Year 2006), the INVESaT project will furtheron concentrate its efforts on providing insights to specific business models of young companies in the sector, future development paths and investment opportunities.
The Event:
INVESaT / FinanceSpace INVESTMENT FORUM,
in collaboration with ESA
Place: ESA / ESTEC, NOORDWIJK (NL)
Date: 23-24 April 2007
INVESaT aims at identifing a wide range of successful SME business cases, the most promising of which will be presented at the above mentioned investment forum.
This event will be organised in close collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Europe INNOVA Network FinanceSpace at ESTEC in the Netherlands on April 23-24 2007. In a parallel Venture Academy, start-ups and entrepreneurs will be provided insights to investor expectations and associated mecanics to foster new business creation, development and growth.
Is your company active in the field of ICT based satellite applications (Earth observation, navigation, timing,geo-positioning and telecommunications applications)?
Are you searching for private funding of your business?
If yes, your participation to the Investment Forum would be highly welcome!
How can SMEs participate?
Participation will be free of charge for the entrepreneurs. Companies can apply by completing a short profile form. You will furthermore be asked to fill in a more detailed questionnaire, which serves as a tool for project-internal analysis and evaluation of start-up companies. Please return the questionnaires via email to INVESaT / EBN (vho@ebn.be) Galileo: European GNSS Supervisory Authority takes over activities from the Galileo Joint Undertaking06/02/2007The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), a new Community Agency, officially took over responsibility from the former Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) on 1 January 2007. The Agency's first order of business: to establish a 20-year multi-billion Euro public-private partnership contract with a consortium whose task will be to implement the deployment and operations of the full Galileo system and commercialise its services.
"The Agency is a major step towards the streamlined management of the programmes. In such a complex and high-stakes initiative as Galileo, good governance is the most important element needed to move the project forward," said Pedro Pedreira, Executive Director of the GSA, "The GSA is committed to the rapid conclusion of the concession contract negotiation and expects the same from the concession bidder." (...)
Source: GNSS Supervisory Authority
EC Green Paper on Satellite Navigation Applications published December 8th 200603/01/2007
The Commission has launched a consultation on Satellite Navigation Applications, with the advent of the European satellite navigation system Galileo.
The Commission’s Green Paper, in the words of Commission Vice-President, Jacques Barrot "sets out the framework in which satellite navigation applications are being developed. In particular, it intends to stimulate a discussion among interested parties and prompt new ideas on the possible tasks of the public sector to support the development of such applications."
INVESaT awarded Best Europe INNOVA Network of the Year13/12/2006For their achievements during the first ten months of activity, the INVESaT network has been awarded as “Best Europe INNOVA Network of the Year”. The award was granted by the European Commission during the Europe INNOVA conference in Valencia to award “excellent performance”.
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INVESaT shares the title with the Europe INNOVA networks CASTLE, BeLCAR and TCAS, which were also awarded for their outstanding teamwork and networking results achieved.
The photograph shows the coordinators of the networks of the year during the award ceremony at the Europe INNOVA conference in Valencia, October 26th 2006. | INVESaT WIKI13/12/2006INVESaT WIKI is a dynamic online tool designed by the INVESaT expert partner D‘APPOLONIA in order to provide entrepreneurs in the space industrial sectors with an information platform describing the sector of activity, in particularly in GMES, GALILEO and telecommunication areas.
The content of INVESaT WIKI is based on documentation that was collected throughout the first year of project activities. All references and information sources have been highlighted, allowing users to directly access the original source.
The conception of INVESaT WIKI is based on the famous wikipedia virtual encyclopaedia. The reliability of the system will be guaranteed by the principle that INVESaT WIKI is an “open” system that allows for modifications, additional references etc. to be integrated, so that more and more data will become available.
As soon as doubtful information appears, it is corrected by another user who knows better. The possibility of editing INVESaT WIKI is limited to registered users, who have to provide some reference and explain their interest in INVESaT WIKI.
Europe INNOVA Lead Markets Workshop in Munich, June 29-30 200616/08/2006
This first Europe INNOVA Workshop had the objective to explore the concept of lead markets as proposed by the Aho Report on creating a market for innovative products and services.
The workshop provided an opportunity for exchange between Europe INNOVA partners and other key stakeholders to openly discuss possibilities of creating new markets in Europe based on leading edge technologies. The participants identified and analysed possible supporting measures for the concept of lead markets to be undertaken by Europe INNOVA, taking into account economic analysis as well as previous experience. More info...
INVESaT at the EBN Congress 2006 in Naples, June 28-30 200614/08/2006
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Innovation in Action was the underlying concept across all activities of this year’s EBN Congress in Naples, bringing together around 400 European and international attendees from the Business and Innovation Centres’ (BICs) community, innovative entrepreneurs, project leaders, industrial players and high-level political representatives from various countries worldwide. More info...
At the annual EBN Congress in Naples/Italy, INVESaT was represented with an exhibition
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INVESaT Networking and Expert Work26/06/2006Article:
"INVESaT successfully launches Networking Activities & Expertise Work"
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