The new ESA Business Incubation Centre Nord France opened 28 June 2018 covering six northern France regions to help entrepreneurs to start 75 new companies over the coming 5 years developing non-space services and applications from space technology and satellite data.
From left to right: Yann Barbaux (Airbus and Aerospace Valley President), Jean-François Balducchi (Ouest BIC Technopoles President and General Delegate from Atlanpole), Bruno Naulais (ESA BICs Network Manager from ESA Technology Transfer and Business Incubation Programme Office), Lionel Suchet (Deputy Chief Executive Officer CNES), Rémi De Badts (Ariane Group, President Astech), Anne-Claire Reix (Vice President Pole Safe), Johann Dietrich Wörner (ESA Director General) and François Duprat (Ouest BIC Technopoles Treasurer and Director Brest Iroise).
More on ESA BIC Nord France here.