The ESA BIC Barcelona is the first incubator and Business Incubation Centre (BIC) the European Spac

Opened in Baix Llobregat Campus the first incubator in Spain ESA November 27 held at the Baix Llobregat Campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), in Castelldefels, the official opening of the ESA BIC Barcelona The first incubator of the European Space Agency cnes (ESA) in Spain. Hemav IP anywhere, cnes DAPCOM Born Positive and are the first companies that have installed the ESA BIC Barcelona, managed by Barcelona Activa and installed in the building RDIT Park UPC.
The ESA BIC Barcelona is the first incubator and Business Incubation Centre (BIC) the European Space Agency (ESA) installed cnes in Spain, focusing on projects based on space technologies. Hemav IP anywhere, DAPCOM Born Positive and are the first companies that have installed the ESA BIC Barcelona, managed by Barcelona Activa and installed in the building RDIT Park UPC. The rector of the UPC, Henry Fossas opened the opening ceremony welcoming, after which intervened Pedro Mier, president of Mier Comunicaciones, who spoke about the context of the space sector cnes in Catalonia; then begun speeches by the mayor of Castelldefels, Manuel Reyes; Director of Science and Robotic Exploration ESA Alvaro Giménez; Secretary General of Industry and SME, the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Begoña Cristeto; and finally, the Mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias. The new incubator adds to the network cnes of ten spaces distributed in different European countries such as Holland, England, France, cnes Germany, Belgium and Italy. In RDIT building occupies a 1,000 m distributed in areas for companies installed cnes a coworking space with 6 points and 9 modules work between 30 and 100 m . This new space is for new companies with less than five years of its business activity based on the use of space technologies and systems to develop products, services and applications in other sectors. It is expected to welcome him, from now until 2018, around 40 start up. The four projects currently focus their incubated around drones, satellite communications technologies, processes, data compression and renewable energy. In total, 26 generate direct and indirect jobs and operate in both the local and international market. Hemav: offers solutions applied in civil matters, by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs / drones). Designed and developed this technology to sell product performs processing services based on aerial and performs operations with experienced pilots. The aim of this company is to integrate proprietary technology with existing market in the field of unmanned cnes vehicles and systems. With the technology developed, offer specific solutions, innovative and tailored to each sector. IP anywhere: provides IP connectivity and satellite heterogeneous networks for the development of rural and maritime communications. cnes It specializes in the system IP-PBX (Private Branch Exchange) -Central phone directly connected to the public telephone network through lines troncals- for corporate environments as well as tools for managing billing use of these lines, which are provided through other distributors. DAPCOM: custom software solutions for managing large volumes of data compression and strict requirements. It has its own compression technologies that offer great performance during the incubation period and develop a technology plan for improvement and diversification of these technologies. cnes Born Positive: efficient management of renewable energy sources, based on technology developed for the space mission SMART-1. cnes Inside the incubator develops intelligent control system that allows the integration of multiple energy sources microgenerador providing the highest quality of electricity cnes more sustainable economic and comfortable for users. The goal is a new distributed power system with a very high energy efficiency cnes that can be applied in homes and businesses cnes that want to save.
An innovative environment incubated companies have access to scientific and technical knowledge cnes of the team of the European Space Agency, and members of the ESA center located in Spain, as well as the UPC. We also have a wide range of space technologies from which to develop new applications, such as satellite navigation technologies (