Set up by ESA in 2011 as part of its thriving Europe-wide BIC network and managed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the ESA BIC Harwell draws on both organisation’s outstanding track record in high-tech business incubations – providing a unique environment geared exclusively to accelerating innovation and unlocking your commercial potential. Each year the ESA BIC will accept up to 10 new start-ups, with our incubatees applying space technology in sectors such as healthcare, energy, sports analysis, big data, industrial inspection and digital technology.

The ESA BIC is looking for entrepreneurs and start-up companies with innovative ideas for using space technologies and services in a non-space environment.

You can apply to the ESA BIC Harwell programme if:

• Your idea involves the transfer of space technology and/or the utilisation of a space system in a non-space environment
• You understand what IP is needed to help implement your idea and ideally have access to it
• Your company is a young start-up which has been registered in the UK for less than five years
• You’ve got an innovative, technology-driven idea ready for, or at an early stage of, commercial development

The next deadline is 7th September 2015.

Successful applicants receive:

• A cash incentive and access to other sources of funding
• Access to office space and shared facilities
• Access to technical expertise, research facilities, technology and IP through STFC, ESA and the wider Harwell Oxford campus
• Hands-on business development support and advice
• Access to strategic partnership and networking opportunities

For more information contact Gemma Wilson, Business Incubation Support Manager or phone +44 (0)1235 446 075