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ESNC: The Road To ESA BIC
The European Satellite Navigation Competition is an excellent starting point for aspiring entrepreneurs. This is not just an empty slogan, as evidenced by the number of winners that have founded successful businesses based on their idea. Two such companies are...
Collaboration with Leiden Instrument Makers School
SBIC Noordwijk has entered into a new collaboration with the Leiden Instrument Makers School (Leidse instrumentmakers School, LiS). LiS is a highly acclaimed vocational school (in Dutch: mbo) that teaches students to craft high tech precision instrumentation. Part of...
Readar: Inspecting Roofs from Space
Our new incubatee Readar is a good example of an established company that is using the opportunity of ESA BIC to expand its service range. Readar develops datamining algorithms to inspect real estate from aerial photos. One of Readar’s most successful use cases is...
Polariks Develops Hyperspectral Camera for Wine Drone
There are many ways that lead to ESA BIC. Our new start-up Polariks’ road, for instance, ran past the Leiden Observatory and through a vineyard. Max Wijsman and Dennis van der Wiel, the young co-founders of Polariks, are developing a cheap hyperspectral camera that...
New Business Opportunities for JOHAN Sports
Incubatee JOHAN Sports is making giant leaps forwards. What started out as a winning idea in the 2013 European Satellite Navigation Competition is now a blooming business with international customers and new investors. The start-up company in sports tracking...
32 Hours of Intergalactic Problem Solving
Catchy slogans, lucrative business plans, awesome apps and beautiful visuals are some of the results of the hard work of the 8 participating teams in this year’s Space Apps Challenge held at SBIC Noordwijk. Space Apps Challenge is an international hackathon that...
