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SPACE
TECHNOLOGY
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| Relatively transparent, space technology
continues to play an increasingly fundamental role in the way
we live, work and play. Thoughtful entrepreneurs continue to leverage
the vast amounts of research incubated in governments to generate
significant wealth for themselves and their investors.
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| Technology Transfer,
Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) |
| Research and development in the space industry
extends beyond the traditional satellite telecommunications sector.
Applications of space research and technology to large critical
industries such as healthcare, energy, weather and disaster management
show remarkable promise for future commercial products and services.
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| Product Development |
Investors who choose to support these next-generation
technologies seek to earn a reasonable return on their investments
while assuming an appropriate level of relevant risk. Emerging
businesses must eventually convert pioneering research to attractive
products and services. We intimately understand the process of
matching great business plans and effective management teams with
investors who are capable of adding value beyond financial capital.
With that understanding and our complementary skill sets, Aperture
Financial continues to monitor the most promising research and
development activities in space technology. We have contributed
to large scale graduate research reports that deliver insight
on the future development of space related technologies:
“Space-Based Progressive Inter-operative
Networks (SPIN)”
Publisher: The International Space University, Strasbourg, France
2003
This report seeks to answer the following questions: Is there
an appreciable need for such a global Space network providing
Internet service? The report also addresses scalability, standards
and implementation of such a network.
“TRACKS TO SPACE: Technology
Research Advancing Cooperative Knowledge Sharing to Space”
Publisher: The International Space University, Strasbourg, France
2003
Is a project to perform a survey and mapping of the space technology
Research & Development (R&D) efforts and innovation processes
among the space agencies of several major space-faring nations
(China, Japan, Russia and USA).
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