Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
29-4-1993 1:00 PM
End Date
29-4-1993 4:00 PM
Description
As the number of spacefaring nations of the world increases, so does the difficulty of competing in a global economy. The development of high technology products and services for space programs, and the economic exploitation of these technologies for national economic growth, requires professionals versed in both technical and commercial aspects of space. Meeting this requirement academically presents two challenges. On the technical side, enrollment in science and engineering is decreasing in some of the spacefaring nations. From the commerce perspective, very few colleges and universities offer specific courses in space business.
The United States and Australia have each established programs targeted towards developing strong linkages between their universities, businesses, and space programs. The U.S. Centers for the Commercial Development of Space and the Australian Space Industry Development Centres are consortia composed primarily of universities and companies seeking to identify and exploit potentially commercially significant space-based technologies. Australia's Cooperative Research Centres, which are not limited to space research, include Centre's with a space interest. This paper describes each country's industry consortia program and discusses the resulting benefits to space education.
Paper Session III-B - Space Education- Deriving Benefits from Industrial Consortia
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
As the number of spacefaring nations of the world increases, so does the difficulty of competing in a global economy. The development of high technology products and services for space programs, and the economic exploitation of these technologies for national economic growth, requires professionals versed in both technical and commercial aspects of space. Meeting this requirement academically presents two challenges. On the technical side, enrollment in science and engineering is decreasing in some of the spacefaring nations. From the commerce perspective, very few colleges and universities offer specific courses in space business.
The United States and Australia have each established programs targeted towards developing strong linkages between their universities, businesses, and space programs. The U.S. Centers for the Commercial Development of Space and the Australian Space Industry Development Centres are consortia composed primarily of universities and companies seeking to identify and exploit potentially commercially significant space-based technologies. Australia's Cooperative Research Centres, which are not limited to space research, include Centre's with a space interest. This paper describes each country's industry consortia program and discusses the resulting benefits to space education.
Comments
Space Education
Session Chairman: R. Gilbert Moore, Physics Department, Utah State University, Logan, Ut
Session Organizer: Priscilla Elfrey, Patent Counsel and Technology Transfer Office, NASA, Kennedy Space Center