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Space Business

Emerging Theory and Practice

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  • provides a guide to space business
  • examines the economics of the outer frontier
  • examines the ethics of space business
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This book is an academic investigation of commercial activities of firms in the space related industries and those utilizing services provided by space technology firms. These firms and their activities are part of the “New Space” concept where space related commercial activities are undertaken and funded by private firms rather than government institutions. New Space is leading to business model innovation and new theory about space business activities including upstream and downstream commercial activities. Upstream value chains include activities prior to turnover of launched systems to operators. Downstream value chains include operation of systems in space as well as the transfer, processing, and sale of space-based data and data services.

The commercial activities of space business now reach into everyday lives of most humans from banking and disaster management to resource monitoring to tourism. With such broad reach, the New Space ecosystem is rapidly developing in importance and complexity.

 

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Space Business: Theory and State of the Art

  2. Evolution of Space Business

  3. Sector Innovation

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Marketing and Communication, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Arto Ojala

  • Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    William W. Baber

About the editors

Arto Ojala is Professor of International Business at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He is working on several space related research projects in the University of Vaasa's Digital Economy platform cutting across international business, information systems, business model innovation, and entrepreneurship that span from Europe to Japan.

William W. Baber is Professor in the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University. He has combined education with business throughout his career including economic development in the State of Maryland and supporting starting businesses in Japan. In addition to Space Business, he teaches and researches negotiation and business model innovation.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Space Business

  • Book Subtitle: Emerging Theory and Practice

  • Editors: Arto Ojala, William W. Baber

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3430-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-3429-0Published: 21 August 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-3432-0Due: 04 September 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-3430-6Published: 20 August 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 312

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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