The space economy is no longer shaped only by state agencies and traditional aerospace incumbents.
It is becoming a complex innovation ecosystem involving public agencies, startups, platform providers, scientific communities, private firms, open-source contributors, and downstream users. As satellite development, space tourism, off-planet resource exploration, and space-enabled services expand, innovation increasingly depends on collaboration across organizational, sectoral, and community boundaries.
This roundtable explores how open innovation practices, digital platforms, and ecosystem strategies shape the development and commercialization of space technologies. We will discuss how public–private and community-based collaboration can accelerate innovation, manage technological risk, and influence value creation, governance, and sustainability in the Space Economy.
👥 Facilitators
• Marc Gruber - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Magdalena Marczewska - University of Warsaw & Indiana University
• Tamara Roth - University of Arkansas
🤝 Discussion questions
• How can open innovation approaches support high-risk R&D and commercialization in the space economy?
• How do public agencies, private firms, and communities coordinate innovation across ecosystems and platforms?
• How does growing private-sector participation reshape ecosystem dynamics, value creation, and competition in orbit?
• What new organizational forms and governance mechanisms emerge to support multi-actor space innovation?
• What lessons from terrestrial industries can inform sustainable, inclusive, and strategically managed innovation in space?
Join us for a focused discussion on how the Space Economy can help management scholars rethink open innovation, multi-actor collaboration, digital platforms, ecosystem strategy, and commercialization in frontier contexts.
🗓️ August 1, 2026 | 2:00–5:30 PM
📍 Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, USA
🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/e3czZT4R
📩 Questions: Mehdi.montakhabi@said.oxford.edu
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Enrique Acebo
University of León
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