BSGN LifeScience Industry Accelerator
Date:
2021 – …
State of progress:
In progress
Objective:
Stimulation of commercial activities in Low Earth Orbit in the field of life sciences
Partners:
ESA, MEDES, France Biotech,
ConnectbyCNES
Description
The BSGN LifeScience Industry Accelerator driven by the BSGN from ESA is managed by MEDES since 2021. It finds roots into ESA’s strategy for the future such as the Agenda 2025 and the Terrae Novae 2030+ Strategy Roadmap. The goal of the Business in Space Growth Network (BSGN) is to make a significant move towards the stimulation of commercial activities in Low Earth Orbit.
The objective of the BSGN LifeScience Industry Accelerator :
- stimulating a commercial space ecosystem in LEO,
- focusing on projects with terrestrial challenges that can be solved using space assets,
- supporting market-driven activities,
- engaging new actors who are neophytes in the space sector.
To do so, ESA as launched 3 accelerators to act in different fields:
- MEDES for the life sciences and biomanufacturing,
- SCE for the agriculture and food,
- Catapult for advanced material and manufacturing.
All accelerators are working jointly together to strength the capabilities of the program.
Life sciences and biomanufacturing in space market
Among the journey of establishing a BSGN LifeScience Industry Accelerator, one of MEDES’ first tasks was to conduct a market assessment for the life sciences and biomanufacturing fields. Main findings are presented in the adjacent figure.
This market assessment demonstrated the life sciences and biomanufacturing sectors have a huge potential for conducting research in space for commercial purposes. In parallel, it demonstrated also that most of the actors of the field were not aware of how to conduct a space project. So, they see the Accelerator as a chance to access space.
Perspectives
Today, the Accelerator is still under construction. MEDES aims to see the implementation of first projects in 2024.
Ultimately, the Accelerator should be a project broker between project owners a partner such as ESA or other space agencies. To do so, the Accelerator will launch a call annually and provides accelerations services in regards of projects and partners needs and objectives.
More information
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