Innovation and New Markets:Entrepreneurship and Investment in Space Commerce

摘要

Large and small established companies have been collaborating within the Space Investment Summit Coalition to provide support for startup ventures by helping them network with seed and early stage investors. It is in the interest of established companies to do this because startups can test out new market approaches, encourage established firms' own entrepreneurial tendencies, provide public outreach and economic benefits to established firms' space agency customers, and create new opportunities as customers, suppliers, partners, and acquisitions. The Coalition's success has inspired other groups to create entities similarly focused on entrepreneurial innovation and investment. These include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Emerging Markets Working Group, within the Space Enterprise Council, and the International Astronautical Federation, Entrepreneurship and Investment Committee. These three efforts promise both to broaden societal attention to issues of commercial innovation and to ensure that the Coalition's contribution will have lasting international impact.