Activities
The SEE Lab develops its services on four interrelated categories:
- Applied research
- Educational programs
- Ideas generation talks
- Dissemination events
The SEE Lab believes that the production of cutting-edge knowledge with pragmatic outcomes, and so, insights drives the impact of education programs and the value of related events. Thus, applied research projects represent the primary focus of the Lab activities through which feed strategic thinking is developed for private corporations and public institutions.
Driven by an holistic approach that provides a comprehensive investigation of the space economy, the research practice of the SEE Lab is centered on 3 key pillars that are applied to the vertical know-how to obtain relevant outcomes and strategic insights:
- OBJECTIVE DEFINITION: it implies responding to the needs of the client
- KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION: it involves gathering competencies and information
- METHODOLOGY ASSESSMENT: it entails the development of the appropriate academic approach
OUTCOMES: It delivers the findings as
- Papers
- Reports
- Use cases
INSIGHTS: It recaps valuable and strategic recommendations
PUBLICATIONS
- Restricted publications for the Founding Members
- Accessible publications
- SEE LAB PUBLICATIONS: academically consistent research outcomes published on international business and space economics international journals;
- CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE SPACE COMMUNITY: the “contributions of the Space Community” provides a collection of presentations, papers, articles and reports from space experts and non-space actors as well as young professionals and students works on innovative ideas in the field of the space economy.
A deep understanding of the space industry and the core expertise of SDA Bocconi School of Management are the basis for educational courses to strengthen managerial skills and develop a strategic vision within the space economy.
The contents of the courses are:
- Space industry-based with the economics and business of space in-Earth orbit and beyond Earth-orbit;
- Managerial-based with focus on critical functions for space enterprises
- Strategy and entrepreneurship
- Innovation
- Finance and risk management
- Project management
- Operations and supply chain management
The courses are delivered in the form of:
- Custom programs: tailor-made training co-designed and developed with clients based on their specific needs and goals
- Custom coaching: one-to-few executive personalized advice on strategic subject matter.
Today, the space industry is a very challenging environment characterized by private-public dynamics that face a global competition. The competitiveness of a country system and its space industries relies on the overall level of innovation.
- The Ideas Generation Talks involves a panel of experts of universities, industries, and research centers with intense brainstorming sessions to exploit the potential of complementary synergies towards ingenious and relevant purposes