TY - JOUR
T1 - What drives technology innovation in new space?
T2 - A preliminary analysis of venture capital investments in earth observation start-ups
AU - Malyy, Maksim
AU - Tekic, Zeljko
AU - Golkar, Alessandro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - This article analyzes venture capital (VC) investments in the Earth observation (EO) industry, with the aim of identifying technology trends. We collected tech- and investment-related publicly available data on all private, nonsubsidiary companies using their own satellite constellation or other EO instruments as needed to solve the problem of remote sensing of Earth's surface in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum and that were attracting investment and announcing plans for the future, as of 31 December 2016. We refer to these companies as EO startups. In the final sample, there are nine EO start-ups and 21 instruments used in their missions.
AB - This article analyzes venture capital (VC) investments in the Earth observation (EO) industry, with the aim of identifying technology trends. We collected tech- and investment-related publicly available data on all private, nonsubsidiary companies using their own satellite constellation or other EO instruments as needed to solve the problem of remote sensing of Earth's surface in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum and that were attracting investment and announcing plans for the future, as of 31 December 2016. We refer to these companies as EO startups. In the final sample, there are nine EO start-ups and 21 instruments used in their missions.
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U2 - 10.1109/MGRS.2018.2886999
DO - 10.1109/MGRS.2018.2886999
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85063494137
SN - 2473-2397
VL - 7
SP - 59
EP - 73
JO - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
JF - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
IS - 1
M1 - 8672143
ER -