title: The future is our business: how ESA prepares its technology.
authors.affiliation: ESA Directorate for Industrial Matters and Technology Programmes, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Barbier
authors.forename: Eike
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kircher
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cordero
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D005060:Europe; D007390:International Agencies; D016730:Program Development; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D013026:Space Flight / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D018531:Spacecraft; D013672:Technology / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D014893:Weightlessness