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How Centrip got to Noordwijk
Last November, we celebrated three “Dutch wins” during the European Space Week. We can now add another “Dutch” success to the list. The overall winner of the ESNC GSA Challenge, Centrip, is being founded right here in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Centrip will combine...
Down to earth & back up to space
The very idea of the ESA Business Incubation Centre is conveyed in our favourite hashtag: #downtoearth. Start-ups are challenged to use space technology to solve a problem on earth. Johan Leijtens from alumnus Lens R&D did just that. And then he took his...
Swedish delegation visits ESA BIC Noordwijk
On 7 December, ESA ESTEC and the Business Incubation Centre were visited by a 15-member delegation from Sweden. The group, which included members of the Swedish National Space Board, trade council Business Sweden and several Swedish businesses was in The Netherlands...
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...
