Innovation und Unternehmertum bei der NASA: Learned Lessons

Der NFS PlanetS, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Innovation Office der Universität Bern, dem Entrepreneurship Center und be-advanced freuen sich, Sie auf 28. Februar 2023 einzuladen zu einer einzigartigen Veranstaltung mit Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen über die Lektionen, die er bei der NASA in Bezug auf Innovation und Entrepreneurship gelernt hat. Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen war bis Ende […]

Astronomische Innovationen für die Wirtschaft

Die erste Ausgabe der Veranstaltung “Astronomische Innovation”, die gemeinsam von der Technologie- und Innovationsplattform PlanetS (TIP) und dem Science Innovation Hub (SIH) der Universität Genf organisiert wurde, fand im Juni in der Genfer Sternwarte statt. Dort erfuhren die Forschenden, welche Unterstützung der PlanetS und seine Mitgliedsinstitutionen bei der Erkundung des Weges zum Unternehmertum bieten können. […]

Impulse programme «Swiss Innovation Power»

Innosuisse co-funds innovation projects that companies and private and public institutions conduct jointly with research partners in Switzerland. Conditions for companies (called implementation partners) for projects have been relaxed due to the Covid, from January 2021 until the end of 2022. Eased financial terms for innovation projects are intended to help SMEs maintain their innovative […]

Course of Project Management (PM) for PlanetS

The PM course successfully took place in Avril/May 2020. Initially proposed to PlanetS collaborators as a mixed online-onsite course but, due to the extraordinary Covid-19 situation, it was re-shapes to a 100% online. The main objective of the course was to give the basic PM methods to participants that can be applied in their current […]

European space research & innovation and Euresearch

SPIE 2020

This year takes place again the biennial SPIE international conference on Astronomy Telescopes and Instruments. It will be held between June 14th and 19th in Yokohama (Japan), link. The last 2018 edition was held in Austin (USA) gathering 2500 visitors and 125 exhibitor companies. For the 2020 edition the Swiss astronomer consortium NCCR PlanetS and the Swiss […]

Bench2biz workshop: call for application

Are you wondering if your invention/research is commercialisable? Do you need to get a clear picture on how to pursue your business idea? Would you benefit from personalised guidance from experts? Bench2biz Zurich 2019 workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs in science & technology is launching a call for applications to all idea champions. Designed for high-technology […]

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019

The EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019  covers a broad area of science topics related to planetary science and planetary missions. The event falls  from 15 and 20 of September 2019 and it is a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. The programme of […]

PlanetS and SSC: a joint meeting

On March 20th PlanetS organized a joint meeting in collaboration with the Swiss Space Center in Bern. The joint meeting was aimed at informing the participants on the available opportunities of technology transfer and new ideas in the space domain funding. The event was opened by Andreas Werthmueller (Space Science and Instruments – Swiss Space Office). […]