If you have an idea for the technical and commercial maturation of ESA’s inventions (max 175 k€ from ESA), you should already identify the field of application for the chosen invention and the commercial opportunity to implement it as part of a product or service. The ideas submitted with this purpose fall within the early technology development activities and therefore the same implementing rules apply. 

The Agency will propose subsets of ESA’s inventions, which will be updated on a 4- month basis.

ESA makes its intellectual property available on a freely licensed basis to European space companies within the Agency’s 22 Member States. For use by companies outside of ESA Member States, or for non-space applications, a different licensing model is in place, allowing ESA to request royalties.