Seizing the opportunities of a strategic sector such as aerospace was the focus of the talk "Territorial space economy, start-up and business innovation, opportunities", held on the occasion of the first Aerospace Festival , which ends today at the Olbia Archaeological Museum .
In a territory, the north-east, which is positioned on a trajectory of innovation, attracting investments, supporting start-ups and training skills is the mission of public bodies; proposing projects and innovation projected into the future is the challenge for companies and private investors.
The birth of the Department for innovation and development in the Olbia university centre, announced by the Rector of the Uniss, Gavino Mariotti, creates concrete opportunities for growth in the area .
The theme developed starting from the numbers, introduced by the moderator of the panel, the university professor Antonio Usai: over 1,000 billion dollars by 2030 the value that the aerospace sector will generate in the world economy, this year 2,000 jobs available in Italy.
Obama's Space Act , a law aimed at liberalizing the market, is an epochal turning point that has triggered the passage of space from a research and military area to a land of conquest for private companies .
«Today private investments have exceeded public ones - explained Gianluca Dettori , chairman and partner of Primo Ventures, an 86 million euro fund that invests in digital technologies and the new space economy - since logistics has been facilitated and costs have become more accessible business models have multiplied: telecommunications, transport and space infrastructure, the investments that can be made concern the entire supply chain. From data arriving from space it is possible to create previously unthinkable services and now we are also witnessing the reverse phenomenon: startups that want to bring orbiting factories into space, technologies born on earth but which, by exploiting the absence of gravity, can generate new things".
