October 14, 2015

CNESMAG 66 - Innovation

Innovation, boosting employment

Editorial

"In this issue of Cnesmag, we turn the spotlight on innovation and employment, the two key drivers of our agency’s strategy. Because today, space is undergoing a seismic shift with the arrival of new players from the Internet sphere and emerging nations for which it is much more a means than an end.

The result is that we are seeing burgeoning demand for ever more-diverse and precise applications, where the discriminator is innovation and the creation of hundreds and even thousands of new jobs is at stake.

n response to this new paradigm, CNES is pulling out all the stops: outside the agency, supporting new entrants with the unfaltering backing of the government (see our interview with Louis Schweitzer); and within, through our new Directorate of Innovation geared to meeting the needs of users of space technologies—so that in this fast-moving world, CNES is more than ever fuelling innovation for jobs."

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Jean-Yves Le Gall
CNES President

 Space is undergoing a seismic shift with the arrival of new players from the Internet sphere and emerging nations for which it is much more a means than an end. 

ONLINE MAGAZINE

Innovating to win

Today's space industry can call on fully mature technologies and offers great potential for development.

In this context, CNES is reorganizing with a new roadmap to boost growth and jobs through innovation across the sector.

Online magazine (pdf file)

 Further reading

 

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KEY FIGURES: FROM SPACE INNOVATION TO JOBS

Is space creating jobs? How is CNES investing in innovation? Find out in this infographic.

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VIdeos (english subtitled)

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TIMELINE: creating a start-up

From concept to commercialization, there are several steps to creating a start-up. The path taken by Xavier Lafontan, a former postgrad engineer at CNES who today heads a fast-expanding compatny specialiszed in the internet of Things (IoT) is a case in point. See our infographic.

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