The International Institute of Space Commerce is the world’s leading nonpartisan think-tank dedicated to the study of the business, economics, and commerce of space.
Our goal is to transform the global discussion on space commerce working to solve the issues it faces today and tomorrow by driving forward the conversation with a marketplace of new ideas by providing this home for the exchange, discussion, and creation of new ideas in space commerce.
Being international in its reach and a non partisan ‘Think Tank’ drawing upon new ideas and solutions to existing and future problems the space industry faces by drawing together experts from academia, government, the media, business, international and non-governmental organizations, most notably those from the ISU and its extended network of people and resources.
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Our members are drawn from around the world from private citizens to policy makers, from academics and students to industry leaders. All are contributing to the growing conversation and ideas about space commerce today and its future for all tomorrow.
Every nation in the world, every economic sector, and near every human being today depends upon the products and services of the space industry.
Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the global space industry has grown enormously to encompass the annual $300 billion satellite communications industry[1], itself supporting the $4.3 trillion a year telecommunications industry[2], on through to the provision of weather satellites and global positioning systems changing the way the world feeds itself through to the revolution in remote sensing changing the way we see our lives and further to the cutting edge frontier of the commercialization of human spaceflight with space tourism, the International Space Station, Asteroid mining, and so much more.
How is all of this evolving and growing in this age of exponential technology, of industry disruption, this second renaissance, this digital renaissance? Help us in answering these and other questions. Join the conversation?
The Institute publishes papers, holds workshops and events, and supports conferences around the world.
To date, the Institute has published over 40 papers from industry and academic leaders which have been delivered by invitation at venues ranging from the US National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC to the International Space University in Strasbourg, to the International Astronomical Congress in Toronto and Jerusalem, covering topics as diverse as the commercial use of the International Space Station on through to the use of private capital for the provision of public science missions.
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The Institute was founded in 2007 as a Not for Profit Isle of Man Company and is been located at the Nunnery in Douglas on the Isle of Man, drawing from the Isle of Man’s growing role and importance in the world’s space industry.
[1] Source: Space Foundation www.spacefoundation.org
[2] Source: Satellite Industry Association www.sia.org
