Early Stage Venture Capital for StartUps
Coimbra, 7 September 2022. Portugal Ventures, the Portuguese Space Office, ESA BIC Portugal and ESA teaming up to offer Portuguese start-ups early access to venture capital. Its an important step to demonstrate that venture capital funding can be engaged with start-ups at a much earlier stage when vision and investment strategy are aligned with our rising stars. How appropriate to be celebrating this deal at the Coimbra University's Observatory! From left tot right: Jorge Pimenta (Manager ESA BIC Portugal), Cornelis Eldering (ESA) and Rui Ferreira (CEO Portugal Ventures) Credits: IPN |
Space for Business - Executive Education
St. Gallen, Cascais, Rotterdam, February-October 2022. So proud to present the 1st cohort of the European Space for Business Executive Education course. After having worked many months closely with the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), the NOVA School of Business & Economics, and the University of St. Gallen, the executive education course is a reality. This complements the already successful collaboration with CEMS' Masters in International Management (CEMS MIM) and now brings business education also to practitioners and thought-leaders of the New Space economy. A big shout-out to the academic leadership Rene Olie (RSM), Andreas Witmer (St. Gallen) and Ricardo Mesquita (NOVA), as well as Ricardo Marvao, Katarzyna Fonseca and my dear friend Emir Sirage. More info? Watch my welcome video here! Interested in participating? Click on the link below! |
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VIIth Anniversary ESA BIC Portugal
ESTEC, 22 November 2021. Anniversary recording for ESA BIC Portugal, marking their 7th year, having successfully incubated 42 new technology based firms! Well done! |
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Space Café WebTalk: Space 4 Business
Online, 31. August 2021. During this week’s Space Café, SpaceWatch, global publisher Torsten Kriening sat down with me and Dr René Olie, Academic Director for the Rotterdam School of Management to discuss how business education and incubator programs are helping to unlock Europe's commercial space potentials. The interview also marks the start of the first edition of the European Space for Business excecutive education programme to be launched Q2 2022. Link to the you tube WebTalk can be found click here! Link to the back story can be found click here! |
London School of Economics Award
London, 26. May, 2021. Yesterday evening we were honoured with the London School of Economics Award in the Corporate Spotlight 2020-21 in the category: Most Consistent Engagement. A great shout out to all the brilliant students who are doing such a great job in helping ESA Space Solutions integrate space into our economy and our society. For all nominees see link below. Credits: LSE |
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Handbook featuring ESA BIC best practices
Massachusetts, 27. April 2021. Edward Elgar Publishing. Proud to have contributed to the Handbook of Research on "Business and Technology Incubation and Acceleration - A Global Perspective" by Mian, Klofsten and Lamine (ed.) with a chapter on ESA BIC's past & present development. "A comprehensive, comparative and illuminating Handbook of incubation and related entrepreneurial enhancement support structures edited and written by the leading international authorities on innovation." -- Henry Etzkowitz, International Triple Helix Institute, US |
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XVI ESA-CEMS Seminar
Space, 28. August 2020. This year's 16th edition of the ESA-CEMS block seminar was held digitally. Thanks to the enthusiasm, commitment and keen minds of the students, the seminar continues to be an overwhelming succes. Like previous years, the seminar was co-organised with CEMS member universities Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), joined by our ESA Space Solutions network partners. For the web story, click here. For my final address to the CEMS students, click here. Credits: C.J.J. Eldering |
Staying in touch...
Home, 20. May 2020. Staying in touch virtually with each other during these challenging times is paramount in bringing ESA's Gateway for space commercialisation to Europe's innovators and entrepreneurs! More then 65 partners exchanging experience, customer needs and best practices! Follow us on @ESA Commercialisation Gateway. Credits: C.J.J. Eldering |
XXth ESA Space Solutions Conference
Coimbra, 1. October 2019. The XXth ESA BIC, Broker and Ambassador Conference convened at the University of Coimbra, a historical and inspiring knowledge hub dating from 1290. The conference also marked a milestone in the network's history. With 14 Application Ambassadors, 15 Technology Brokers and 20 ESA BICs in over 85 locations throughout ESA member states, we've come a long way! I am proud to be leading such a fantastic team. Together with our outstanding network members there is always an ESA innovation partner near you! Find my address to Portugal during the conference in the link below. Credits: C.J.J. Eldering |
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EU Industry Days
Brussels, February 5th, 2019. Why do we need more Space for Europe? Recently, I had the pleasure to organise a panel with other thought-leaders at the EU Industry Days to look at this question through different lenses. The entrepreneur, the business incubation centre, the technology broker, the innovation policy maker; in other words: the different angles to shed light from on the European potential of a solid global New Space economy. For the full article on my thoughts, click the link below! From left to right: Tim Heijmann (Managing Director SkyfloX), Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Carlos Cerquira (Director IPN), Thibaud Delourme (European Commission). |
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Visiting South African Entrepreneurs
Stellenbosch, 31st January 2019. Visiting South Africa together with ESA Director General Jan Woerner to explore ESA BIC international relationships with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), connecting entrepreneurs from Europe and South Africa, building a global and sustainable New Space economy. From left to right: Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Mike-Alec Kearney (CEO CubeSpace), Imraan Saloojee (Director Earth Observation SANSA). |
Galileo Masters Award Ceremony
Marseille, 4 December 2018. It was a pleasure to award start-up company Lycie from France the ESA Special Prize during the Galileo Masters award ceremony, which took place in front of an international audience during the European Space Week 2018 in Marseille, France. Lycie is offering a mobile car driving safety application, integrating space-based machine-learning algoritms into location based services. From left to right: Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Jean Galinowski and his team (Lycie). Credits: AZO GmbH |
ESTEC 50 Years Anniversary
Noordwijk, 3 April 2018. It was a privilege and honour to moderate the anniversary panel of ESA/ESTEC retired staff; some of them representing the first cohort of ESA employees staffing ESTEC. Amazing stories from behind the scene that resonate with the current and next generations of ESTEC personnel, now shaping the future of ESA in the 21st century! From left tot right: Heidi Graf, Rudi Meiner, Theo vd Laar, Cornelis Eldering. Credits: Rudi Meiner |
Tweakers.net Meet-Up
Enschede, 23. May 2017. Having a great audience at the Tweakers Meet-Up event at the University of Twente, organised by Tweakers.net, the largest web-based electronics user community of the BeNeLux. Credits: Tweakers.net |
Inauguration ESA BIC Madrid Region
Madrid, 23 February 2017. Celebrating the official inauguration of ESA BIC Madrid Region with already 14 incubated start-up companies presenting their space based solution to international markets. From left tot right: Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Nuria Hernandez-Alfageme (ESA), Federico Moran (Madrimasd), Begona Criscreto (Secretary General for Industry and SMEs), Director General Jan Woerner (ESA), Eduardo Diaz (ESA BIC) , Carlos Romero (ESA BIC), Javier Ventura (ESA), Jose de la Sota (Madrimasd). Credits: ESA |
Two Years ESA BIC Portugal
Coimbra, 23 November 2016. The second year anniversary of ESA BIC Portugal -now 12 start-ups strong in Coimbra, Porto and Lisboa-, as well as the ARTES Small Apps programme and the National Technology Transfer Initiative. It is important to celebrate milestones right from the beginning! From left tot right: Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Bruno Carvalho (Active Space Technologies) and Prime-Minister António Costa. Credits: IPN |
Launch ESA BIC & Broker Ireland
Cork, 8 September 2016. The inauguration of ESA Space Solution Centre Ireland included a visit to the Irish Maritime and Energy Resource Cluster (IMERC), one of the four partners of ESA SSC Ireland. Hear my address to Ireland's Taoiseach prime minister Enda Kenny 8 months earlier at 0.48 minutes in the link below. From left tot right: Martin Wall (IMERC), Commander Paddy Harkin (Irish Naval Service), Lluc Diaz (ESA), David Gibbons (ESA SSC), Cornelis Eldering (ESA). Credits: IMERC/ V.Cummins |
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CEMS Benchmarking Event at ESA HQ
Paris, 24 May 2016. The topic of this edition of the CEMS Partners Benchmark meeting was "Creating Space For Talent". 50 professionals from corporate partners and academic members of CEMS -the Global Alliance of Management Education- came together at ESA HQ in Paris to share their experiences on working with young talents from the CEMS community and how these talents can generate innovation and technology transfer amongst the corporate partners and Europe's Space 4.0i. Credits: CEMS |
Five-Yearly Anniversary ESA BIC UK
Oxford, 17 November 2015. It was a great pleasure to celebrate the first five-yearly anniversary of the ESA BIC Harwell at the Mansfield College's Chapel Hall. Some 120 guests representing all 50 start-ups from ESA BIC Harwell, as well as the STFC and ESA teams, joined together to reflect on the past 5 years of entrepreneurship and space-based innovation with speeches from accomplished alumni and current incubatees that still have exciting challenges ahead of them. Congratulations! Credits: STFC |
RSM Distinghuished Alumni Award
Rotterdam, 2 October 2015; With great honour I accepted the Rotterdam School of Management Distinguished Alumni Award for Entrepreneurial Society and Business Solutions in the Senior Leader category during the RSM Leadership Summit. I would like to thank the academic staff for the fantastic collaboration all these years and my management at ESA for supporting our activities with the business education community. And off course all the future leaders, i.e. the students, with whom I am working on concrete business opportunities bringing space to the terrestrial market environment! Give back to your university, where ever you may be in your careers! Credits: O. Ten Doeschate / J. Van de Streek |
Global Space Innovation Conference
Munich, 24 June 2015; It was a pleasure to be moderating one of the international expert panels at the Global Space Innovation Conference 2015. During this conference, we also announced a new partnership agreement with EBAN, the European Business Angel Network. Panelists: John Freisinger (Technology Ventures Cooperation); Alexey Belyakov (Skolkovo Foundation), Gian Gherardo Calini (GSA),
Amnon Ginati (ESA), Takayuki Kawai (JAXA), Didier Lapierre (CNES), Thorsten
Rudolph (AZO). Credits: Iafastro/IAF |
Ten Years ESA/RSM/CEMS Seminars
Noordwijk, 29 August 2014: Already the 10th edition of the ESA/CEMS students seminar at ESTEC in Noordwijk. Time flies! I was privileged to edit the jubilee booklet to celebrate this milestone and hand it over Arnaud de Jong, CEO of DutchSpace/Airbus, the provider of this year's space technology. Of course, it could not be the success it is today without the tremendous support of RSM, ESA, industry, and most importantly the brilliant students from CEMS, the Global Alliance for Management Education. From left to right: Joerg Wehner (ESA), Arnaud de Jong (CEO Dutchspace/Airbus), Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Steef van de Velde (Dean RSM). Credits: ESA / A. Le Floc'h |
CEMS MSc (BA) Graduates' Address
Rotterdam, 4 April 2014: It was a great honour to address this year's graduates from the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and the Global Alliance for Management Education (CEMS) on the occasion of obtaining their well-deserved double master degree in International Management. The future is bright! On stage in the new Erasmus Pavilion onsite the Erasmus University Campus. Credits: RSM |
Countdown to Horizon 2020
Brussels, 11 December 2013. The Countdown to Horizon 2020 is a series of events that formally introduce the space part of the Horizon 2020 programme and also serves as a platform to inform about the current programmes fostering spin-offs from space through technology transfer and entrepreneurship, such as the ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) and Technology Transfer Demonstrator programme from the European Space Agency. On stage at the European Commission in Brussels Credits: European Commission |
Extension ESA BIC Hessen
Darmstadt, 11 September 2013: Extension of the ESA BIC Darmstadt (running since 2007) signed by Minister Economic Affairs Florian Rentsch from the State of Hessen, ESA Director Franco Ongaro, ESA Director Thomas Reiter in his role as director of ESOC and Frank Zimmermann, Director of cesah GmbH, managing the ESA BIC in Darmstadt. From left to right: Frank Zimmerman (cesah GmbH), Adriana Lucas (ESA), Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Director Franco Ongaro (ESA). Credits: cesah/ESA/J.Mai |
Visit Province of South Holland
Noordwijk, 7 February 2013: Visit of the Deputy for Economic Affairs of the province of South-Holland (PZH) to the European Space Innovation Centre (ESIC) and the ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC). In front on display the E-Bike from ESA BIC incubated start-up company B4Bike. From left to right: Erik Vredebrecht (PZH), Martijn Seijgers (ESIC), Deputy Govert Veldhuijzen (PZH), Cornelis Eldering (ESA). Credits: ESA |
A Royal and Presidential Visit
Noordwijk, 26 October 2012: Heads of state from the Netherlands and Italy visit to ESTEC with a tour past several exhibited ESA programmes, such as the ESA Business Incubation Centre initiative with success story company Miramap and its entrepreneur Roland Haarbrink. Presenting to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and President Giorgio Napolitano, from left to right: Priel Manes (ESA), Yvette Pluijmers (Miramap), Roland Haarbrink (Miramap), Cornelis Eldering (ESA). Credits: ESA/G.Schoonewille |
Visit Dutch Ministry of General Affairs
Noordwijk, 23 May 2011: Visit of the prime minister's General Affairs office staff to ESTEC for presentations from Director Geale Winters and Cornelis Eldering, as well as a tour around the facilities. Left: ESA Director Geale Winters. Right: Cornelis Eldering. Credits: ESA |
The European Space Innovation Centre
Noordwijk, 4 January 2011. The construction of the European Space Innovation Centre (ESIC) across the road from ESA's European Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk. This will be our new home for the ESA BIC Noordwijk and will also house other space related business services. So much looking forward to it after working intensively together with my peers at the Dutch government, the Province of South Holland, City of Noordwijk, and our project development partner NL Development Credits: SBIC |
Launch ESA BIC UK
Harwell, 3 December 2010: Signature ceremony between STFC and ESA during the kick-off event of ESA BIC Harwell. From left to right: Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Director Kieth Mason (STFC), Director David Southwood (ESA), Adriana Lucas (ESA). Credits: ESA/STFC |
Extension ESA BIC Noordwijk
Noordwijk, 28 April 2010: Having started at ESA as part of the Business Incubation setup team in 2002, it is now time to extend the first ESA BIC location that was launched in 2004 at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Minister Van der Hoeven announced opening the new and permanent location for ESA BIC Noordwijk in 2011 and toured around several incubatees who were show-casing their products. From left to right: Frank Salzgeber (ESA), Cornelis Eldering (ESA), Minister Van der Hoeven (EZ), Director Michel Courtois (ESA). Credits: ESA |
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