Innovation Management Committee:

About Us

Philosophy

Mission statement

  • Help bring innovation to the next level: support disruptive innovation and enter new fields.

Goals

  • Be at the forefront of operations.
  • Enable industrial competitiveness on the global market.
  • Improve internal efficiency.
  • Speed up processes and reduce lead time.

Collaboration

  • Work with scientific institutions of leading Member States

Organisation

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Innovation Officer

Responsibilities:

  • Develop the Directorate’s Innovation Strategy
  • Define and implement ESOC’s innovation governance based on best practices
  • Lead the Directorate-wide innovation matrix organisation
  • Manage the innovation budget
  • Search for emerging innovation opportunities
  • Develop internal and external innovation networks and strategic partnerships
  • Foster a pro-innovation culture

Meet the Innovation Officer:

Artur M. PalowskiInnovation Officer

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Innovation Management Committee

Responsibilities:

  • Implement the innovation strategy
  • Identify knowledge repositories and experts relevant to innovation both inside and outside ESOC
  • Ideate on how identified opportunities shall be translated into actions through, e.g. facilitated experimentation, maturation, funnelling and deployment of results
  • Collaborate with competence and application domains, technology programmes, innovation champions
  • Identify and the development ESOC/ESA wide and external relations in order to cultivate and sustain an innovation ecosystem
  • Organise and evaluation of innovation or promotional events
  • Deploy the most suitable tools to support innovation activities
  • Advise the Innovation Officer and the Management Team on allocation of resources for innovation activities
  • Propose the allocation of Internal Research Fellows @ESOC
  • Develop streamlined processes for the above-mentioned activities

Meet the Innovation Management Committee:

Daniela Taubert Spacecraft Operations Engineer
Jutta Maria HuebnerSpacecraft Operations Engineer
Marta Pantoquilho System and Applications Architect
Mehdi Scoubeau Missions System Engineer

Key Components

Throughout the process of innovation management we focus on 4 key components

We believe innovation management is a journey, we’re open to experiment with new concepts and setups with innovation passionates.

Innovation

Improving the innovativeness of European industry

Innovation

Improving the innovativeness of European industry

We allow the European industry to improve its innovativeness through supporting studies, demonstrations, prototyping as well as applied research projects.

Support

Providing technical expertise to local start-ups

Support

Improving the innovativeness of European industry

We support early stage entrepreneurship in our business incubation centre where we provide technical expertise to local start-ups.

Collaboration

With scientific institutions of leading Member States

Collaboration

With scientific institutions of leading Member States

We work with scientific institutions of leading Member States in order to identify and support applied research projects within the field of our core business.

Internal activities

Improving our ability to absorb innovation

Internal activities

Improving our ability to absorb innovation

We improve our ability to absorb innovation through internal activities such as workshops and brainstorming session with dedicated parties as well as internal open innovation competitions.