SYDNEY — Six years after it was blocked by Italian law from investing in an early space startup venture fund, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) has helped seed an industrial landscape that now counts around 300 companies with 8,000 employees, with five Business Incubation Centers (BICs) co-managed by ASI and the European Space Agency (ESA).
In an Oct. 1 presentation here to the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Matteo Coletta, ASI’s head of studies and the space economy, said the past six years . . .
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