Space is now widely recognized as a highly strategic sector enabling a wide array of services and applications for governments, businesses and citizens across numerous economic sectors. Expected benefits have largely fuelled the growing effort from European countries to pool resources and...

The use of space-based technologies and systems has, over the years, grown to proportions well beyond those initially imagined at the onset of the space age. Today, the Space Foundation estimates that the global space economy is valued in the order of US

Access to space is a pre-requisite for being able to provide space-based services and is a basic enabler for the entire space sector. Space launchers are viewed by world space powers as strategic assets and building-blocks for their space economy. Access to space is a sector of high visibility...

The Copernicus programme launched in 1998 under the name GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is the European flagship Earth observation programme, created with the objective of collecting Earth observation data to support, mainly, policy making. The management of the Copernicus...

The objective of the study is to assess the opportunity for the expansion of the Copernicus portfolio with the development of a new Copernicus product related to Ground Motion. This potential product will be referred as "Ground Motion Spatial Database for Europe" or "GMSDE". The goal of this...

The present report is part of the 2016/17 SME Performance Review. It focuses on the performance of SMEs in the EU-28, and two special chapters review recent developments in self-employment, an important segment of the EU-28 SME population, and discuss start-ups and scale-ups.

The European Union Governmental Satellite Communications (EU GOVSATCOM) initiative aims at providing secured communication capacity to EU governmental stakeholders that need it for various missions in the fields of security, defence, humanitarian aid, emergency response and diplomatic...

Tourism is an important economic sector bringing a very substantial contribution to the EU economy. Achieving growth in this increasingly competitive international market requires a supportive regulatory environment, and taxation is a core component of this. While on the one hand taxes directly...