ESA BIC Comunidad de Madrid is an entrepreneurship support project led by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Community of Madrid
The Madrid Science Park is one of the four centers responsible for hosting the companies participating in the ESA BIC Comunidad de Madrid program. Currently, four projects are developing their activities in its facilities:
- BD4BS is an artificial intelligence platform for photovoltaic monitoring, a predictive analysis system that allows optimization of both risks in new projects to be implemented and maintenance and performance activities of a plant.
- NF Advanced Engineering is working on the development of a system for nighttime fire extinction called Nitrofirex. An R&D project in engineering that will allow the development of a global forest fire coordination system based on fixed-wing UAVs.
- SAIENS Energy designs LED solar simulators that reproduce solar radiation. An optical, thermal, structural, or fluid dynamic simulation of solar technology behavior that allows high-precision studies to be carried out at a low cost.
- UTEK develops unmanned naval vehicles (USV), with lengths between 5 and 10 meters, with applications in security for port environments and border surveillance.
For a period of two years, they will have the opportunity to grow their innovations in a scientific-technological development environment, adding to the incentives of the program itself, the portfolio of business development services that the Park makes available to all its associated companies.
The European Space Agency’s Business Incubator Center (BIC) in the Community of Madrid
ESA BIC Comunidad de Madrid is an initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Community of Madrid, coordinated by the Foundation for Knowledge madri+d. An Incubation Center for companies working with space technologies with applications in other fields not related to space.
A selection process allows a small group of highly innovative new companies to be part of this exclusive program, which provides them with both economic incentives and technical and business support.
In addition, the project has technological and financial partners such as the Official College of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT), the Madrid Aerospace Cluster, the European Space Astronomy Center (ESAC), the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI), and the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA).
The chosen companies must be installed in one of the incubation centers of the public universities of the Community of Madrid. In addition to the Madrid Science Park, the UC3M Science Park, Rey Juan Carlos University, and the Polytechnic University of Madrid form the Madrid host centers for the program’s projects.
The ESA BIC has 16 incubation centers in Europe in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, and the Czech Republic that support more than one hundred and thirty companies each year. To date, more than four hundred start-ups have participated.
