ESA BIC PROGRAMME (ESA TTP)

ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs) were created with the purpose to inspire and work with entrepreneurs to turn space-connected business ideas into commercial start-ups companies. Such a network, spread over more than 60 cities, is located in 17 European countries. Together with their national partners, ESA BICs provide all the needed technical expertise and business-development support to the more than 300 start-ups currently under incubation.
With a budget of EUR 500,000.00, the Open Call ESA BIC Lazio 2018-2019 selected 10 entrepreneurial projects, each of them worth of EUR 50,000.00. Main beneficiaries are start-ups with less than 5 years, private and public universities (researchers, lecturers and professors) and future entrepreneurs. In the spirit of ESA BIC Lazio programme, Lazio Innova, ESA and ASI make available to the selected projects a 2-years period of an articulated and integrated system of incubation service at Lazio Innova Spazio Attivo Roma Tecnopolo. The incubation service, working as an accelerating phase to enter the market in the short-time period, includes logistics, coaching/technical mentoring services, as well as the access to the space office with spacious rooms all equipped with the latest technology. Thus, Lazio Innova not only makes available and shares its know-how within the actions related to entrepreneurial promotion, but it also offers a complete package of services to encourage the proliferation of space-tech start-ups.