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Magnitude Space becomes Hiber
Almost sixty years after the moon landing, the word ‘space’ still breathes futurism, innovation and pushing boundaries. But in the business community, ‘space’ also stands for high risk, high cost, and high energy consumption. This is one of the reasons that incubatee...
Eyeplane aims for Dutch drone hub
Many of the companies in the ESA BIC program do not meet the pizza-and-beer startup stereotype, nor do they fit into the myth of the Silicon Valley-type garage startup. In fact, most entrepreneurs in the program have a solid background as engineers, business...
From language learning app to the future of education
When Knowble entered the ESA BIC program in 2015, they had a simple yet revolutionary idea: why not use the GNSS-location of students, plus readily available news articles, to help them learn a (second) language? It has been shown that language learners pick up new...
Drones for Work win ESNC NL Challenge
And the 2017 ESNC Award in the Netherlands Challenge goes to… Drones for Work! The start-up based in Delft had the idea to use GNSS data to position and stabilize their drones. Drones for Work develops a control systems to allow drones to operate in harsh off-shore...
SBIC team visits European Space Week
The team of SBIC Noordwijk spent most of this week in Tallinn, Estonia, for the European Space Week 2017. EUSW2017 is the biggest space business event in Europe, and combined events such as the Copernicus Accelerator Bootcamp, the Garage48 Space Hackathon, the...
Converting waste steam into profit
Anyone living near an industrial area will be familiar with the sight: the white tufts of steam coming from the chimneys of factories. “Waste,” figure the factory operators. “Energy!” say Tjewei Hu and Sana Fateh, co-founders of ESA BIC incubatee Synext. Synext...
