Space Clusters International Industrial Diversification

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Due to their intrinsic capacity to apply to several industrial and business sectors, space technologies (both Global Navigation Satellite Systems and Earth Observation technologies) are expected to know an important growth and new business value chain should be developed in the coming years related to this use of space technologies in various economic sectors, at the international scale. The SPACE2ID proposal (Space Clusters International Industrial Diversification) main objective is to create an ESCP between European space Clusters and several other European clusters, namely MELCA clusters (MELCA stemming for Mobility, Energy, Logistics, Creative industries and Agriculture). It proposes to pave the way to the international business development of space technologies providers in the following applicative sectors: • Mobility (i.e. transports of people) • Energy • Logistics (i.e transport of goods) • Creative Industries (i.e., design, games and music) • Agriculture The commercial products that should stem from this international diversification process are particularly adapted to countries in which space ground infrastructures are not developed enough to allow these services to be provided by traditional ways. Therefore, the capability for space companies to grow is only based on their own capabilities to export their services. However, in these relatively new domains, these companies are generally too small to be able to have commercial actions abroad. Cluster may thus play an important role in this internationalisation by organizing, on a long-term basis, commercial actions in several identified countries, commonly chosen for the five diversification sectors.