1-E6.4

session 1-E6.4

Title: Entrepreneurship Around the World
type: oral
Description: Entrepreneurship has different characteristics that differ from country to country around the world. Some of the challenges that entrepreneurs face transcend national and cultural borders, but some others do not. This session welcomes papers and presentations that describe the barriers experienced by real entrepreneurs in their different countries and regions around the world. A summary discussion will identify the commonalities and unique characteristics of nation-specific entrepreneurial barriers as identified by the presenters. This is a technical session co-sponsored by the IAF Entrepreneurship and Investment Committee (EIC) and the IAF Workforce Development/Young Professionals Programme Committee, as part of the Global Technical Sessions – presenters can present in person at the IAC or from their home/work/university location.
Date: 2026-10-07
Time: 15:00
Room: Hall 28

IPC members

Co-Chair: Mrs. Eleonora Lombardi, Fondazione E. Amaldi, Italy;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	Connecting Youth to Space Data for Earth and Society: An Experiential Learning Framework Supporting Emerging Space Careers and Entrepreneurship – The PIKALI Experience	10	confirmed	Mrs. Erika Velio	PIKALI	France
2	15:10	Creating an Entrepreneurs Paradise with Open Data	10	confirmed	Dr. Jeanne Holm	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States
3	15:20	Emerging Space Economies: Leveraging Innovation for Competitive Advantage	10	confirmed	Mr. Girinath Anandhan		Lithuania
4	15:30	From Orbit to Earth: How SpaceAg Entrepreneurs Navigate Risk and Global Markets	10	confirmed	Mr. Davi Souza	Independent Researcher	United Kingdom
5	15:40	Building Nordic Advantage in Space: Industrial Repurposing, Commercialization, and Coordination with Sweden in Focus	10	confirmed	Mr. Gabor Tatar		Sweden
6	15:50	Catalyzing Space Commerce Through Innovation-Oriented Public Procurement: Evidence from Brazil’s Inertial Navigation System Program	10	confirmed	Mr. Erik Busnello Imbuzeiro	Brazilian Space Agency (AEB)	Brazil
7	16:00	Space Entrepreneurship Models for Developing Economies: Malaysia, Brazil, Nigeria	`10	confirmed	Ms. Priyadharshni Ramesh Raju	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
8	16:00	Strategic Innovation Imperatives for Sustaining Leadership in the Commercial Space Era	10	confirmed	Mr. Philip Hover-Smoot		United States
9	16:10	From Launchpads to Long-Term Prosperity: Deriving a Terrestrial Social Dividend in Regional Australia	10	confirmed	Mr. Hamish McNamara	Southern Launch	Australia
10	16:20	Global Perspectives on Lunar Exploration and Development	10	confirmed	Mr. Issei Mamiya	Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.	Japan
11	16:30	Servitization Under Institutional Lock-in: Government Demand Signals and the Feasibility of Upstream Space Commerce in Europe	10	confirmed	Mr. Leon Kreisel		Germany
12	16:40	An Interactive Web Platform for Space Situational Awareness and Orbital Data Visualization	10	confirmed	Ms. Hatice Acar	TUBITAK Uzay, Space Technologies Research Institute	Türkiye
13	16:50	ESG Management Status and Evaluation of Korean Space Companies for Sustainable Space Development	10	confirmed	Dr. Chang Ho LIM	Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)	Republic of Korea
14	17:00	competing before the resource: resource-advantage theory and constitutive competition in the emerging space economy	10	confirmed	Mr. Ahmet Can Şenlik	İstanbul Gelişim University	Türkiye
15	17:10	A comparative analysis of government and industry perspectives on South Africa’s space commerce development: strategic innovations for commercial acceleration.	10	confirmed	Mr. Mutshutshu Nephiphidi	South African National Space Agency (SANSA)	South Africa

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