Commercialisation of Space

Sarah Liebermann is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, UK, and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management.Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos is Senior Consultant of Strategic Foresight at 2b AHEAD Think Tank in Leipzig, Germany and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management.Thomas Hoerber is Professor for European Studies, Director of the EU*Asia Institute and Head of the Department of International Affairs at ESSCA School of Management. His last related publication was The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations, Routledge, London, 2022.

• Introduction Section I: Politics of Space Commercialisation 1. Commercial and Private Actors in Space: What Does This Mean for the International Political Economy? 2. American and European Space Commercialisation: Providing Economic and Humanitarian Benefits while Complementing State Objectives 3. The Nigerian Space Sector: Structure of Power Analysis 4. The Early Days of South Korean Rocket Technology Section II: Economics of Space Commercialisation 5. Public Private Partnerships and Foreign Direct Investment for Space 6. Strategic Autonomy, Technological Non-Dependence and Intellectual Property Rights in European Space Policy: "The Right to Choose" and "The Right to Say ‘No’" 7. Towards a Common European Innovation Policy: The Case Study of the European Space Industry 8. Does Britain Have Any Choice But to Compete in Space? Section III: Ethics of Space Commercialisation 9. Environmental Protection in the Solar System: The Ethics of the Commercialisation of Space 10. Legal Considerations on Space Commercialization Conclusion