rootbrowseIAC-18E6session 22. Finance and Investment: The Practitioners' PerspectivesPapers1. Start-Up Space: Global Investment Trends2. What can European Union do for your space start-up?3. Entrepreneurship and Private Investment in the European Space Sector4. Introduction to the commercial space innovation initiative5. Making NASA More Business Friendly: An SBIR/STTR Case Study6. Research on the Influence of China’s Commercial Space flight on the Economic and Social Development of the Regions along the Belt and Road7. Opportunities and Challenges for New Space in Japan8. Corporate Venture Investment as a Development Tool for New Space Companies Support9. First Central American Satellite: Financial support in a non–aerospace developed country10. Space Sector as a Catalyst Port to Economic Development on Latin America11. Space3ac downstream accelerator: summary of results from 2016-201812. new space initiatives in piedmont region supporting innovation and internationalization of sme's: recent experiences and perspectives