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The Newsletter of the three Satellite Navigation based Application and Service Clusters

Editorial

The CASTLE Advisory Board

Dear Satellite Navigation based Application and Service Designers, and Supporters Already in 2002 the European Parliament gave its consent to the building of Galileo, Europe's own, independent global navigation satellite system. Planned to be operative in 2011 this largest industrial project organised on a European scale will be the first European public-private partnership. Currently, Navstar-GPS delivers an accuracy between five to ten metres. Galileo is planned to be accurate within two metres and its commercial service down to less than one metre. The range of services offered will be designed to meet the worldwide needs of customers like guaranteed availability, authenticity and integrity. Together with the European overlay signal EGNOS and by using differential procedures the accuracy can be further improved into the decimeter range.

Bernhard R. Katzy, CeTIM started his professional career with an apprenticeship as car mechanic and later studied and earned master degrees in electrical engineering and business management. He holds a PhD in industrial management from University of Technology (RWTH) Aachen in Germany and a second PhD (habilitation) in general management and technology management from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He currently is professor at Leiden University School of Management and the University BW Munich and director of CeTIM – Center for Technology and Innovation Management. His research interest is about entrepreneurial management of fast growing high-tech firms, especially in the emerging industrial structures for the information age.

Henk A. Uittenbogaard, Wireless Leiden Foundation is CEO and founder of AnyWi Technology BV. Prior to joining AnyWi, Henk was President with Cyco Holding BV in the Netherlands. Henk studied Electronics and Industrial Design at the Technical University in Delft. He’s chairman of the Wireless Leiden Foundation, home of one of the largest wireless networks in the world and has positions in several advisory and steering comities in the field of education and innovation.

In order to match the expected more than 100 000 jobs to be created by Galileo in Europe alone a large downstream market has to be developed around the different services to be offered by the space-based radio signal infrastructure through its provider / concessionaire consortium. We think it is important to bring the chances this new technology offers closer to companies, which are not traditionally related to the space segment and motivate and convince them that it is worth to think about innovative businesses based on accurate time and location information. It is for this reason European regions active in satellite-based applications and services are to collaborate closer to reach a higher critical mass of users and developers and a greater impact of commonly designed support measures, strategies and policies to foster the development of a lead market in this potential high-growth area.

Bernhard Katzy Professor at Leiden University School of Management and University BW Munich, Director of CeTIM (Center for Technology and Innovation Management)

Martin Haunschild Co-ordinator Aerospace and Satellite Navigation in Bavaria

Martin Pichl Head of Transport Policy and Environmental Unit, Ministry of Transport

Martin Haunschild, bavAIRia Since 2006 he is speaker and manager of the two Bavarian clusters “satellite navigation” and “aerospace”, organised in the bavAIRia e.V. association. Graduated from TU Munich as an aerospace engineer, he went, after finishing his Ph.D., to MAN Technologie AG, Augsburg, as, among others, project leader “satellite communication and navigation”. In 1999 he joined the BMW Group, Munich, responsible for the BMW “telematics system” within the innovation management and, at a later stage, for strategic development of “electric / electronics”. In 2004 he became the co-ordinator for Aerospace and Satellite Navigation in Bavaria, a co-operation between the German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI) and the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.

CONTENTS

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Editorial

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Advisory Board

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Roadmap

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Introduction to CASTLE

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The Members

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Impressions from the last meetings

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Fotos on Coverpage: top: GALILEO INDUSTRIES, middle: mauritius images / Workbookstock, bottom: mauritius images / Ridder, background: GALILEO INDUSTRIES, Arne Wahlers

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Georg Schell, KATHREIN studied Electronic Engineering, specialising in Communications Engineering at the TU Vienna, awarded Diploma in June 1979. Joined Kathrein as a Development Engineer working on “Satellite TV systems” in 1979. Appointed Section Leader, then Department Manager, appointed 2001 Development Manager. Since 2003 Technical Manager responsible for the areas of Development, Production and Logistics. Member of the extended Board of Management of KATHREIN-Werke KG. Engaged in various working groups within ZVEI, BITKOM, IHK.

Frank-W. Strathmann, GründerRegio M Since 1992 he is head of the research and technology transfer unit, University of Munich and, since 1998, serves as chairman of GründerRegio M. Frank studied geography, cartography and economics at Ruhr-University in Bochum, D, and holds a Ph.D. in natural sciences (University of Munich). For more than ten years he worked as a scientist in the field of satellite remote sensing, digital cartography and geo-informatics also with GTZ, Eschborn, thus contributing to studies on the application potential of satellite navigation and technology forecasting. For more than three years, 1990 to 1993, he did the conception and editing of the scientific journal “SPN - Satellite-Based Positioning and Navigation”.

Tomáš Bohrn, CzechInvest Currently he holds the position of Advisor for strategic projects and new technologies, CzechInvest. His main focus is on the formation of a portfolio of investment opportunities and intellectual property results, mainly in the field of IC design and embedded systems in connection with satelite technologies. He also works on the identification of new technologies for Czech clusters and technology platforms. He studied at the Technical University of Brno, department of materials science Hobby: Surfing in the sea of innovation.

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Karel Havlícek Educational background: Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT) (1987-1992) Prague International Business School Manchester Metropolitan University (1995-1998) University of Economics, Prague (VSE) (1999-2004) Current positions: Vice – President UEAPME Director for Marketing and Sales Strategy SINDAT GROUP Vice – President AMSP CZ Academic activities - Publications: Marketing Management of International Business (Eupres, Prague, 2006) Marketing Management of Small and Medium Enterprises (Management Press, Prague 2005) Enterprise Marketing (Eupress, Prague 2004) Management of Small and Medium Enterprises (Grada, Prague 2004) Academic activities - Lectures: The Institute of Finance and Administration, Czech Republic, Prague Chapman University , USA, CA-Orange Prague International Business School / Manchester Metropolitan University, Czech Rep / UK Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, Great Britain

Martin Pichl, Ministry of Transport Education and qualifications: Institute for Transportation, Traffic Controlling/Management, Prague The University of Transport and Telecommunication Sciences, Faculty of Transport and Telecommunication Management and Economy, City of Zilina (Slovakia) The University of Pardubice, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, City of Pardubice Others: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law (semester-long seminar - European Legislation) Month-long course “Towards Effective and Efficient Planning and Realisation of Infrastructure”, Rijswijk, Netherlands Currently he is working as Head of Transport Policy and Environmental Unit, Ministry of Transport, of the Czech Republic.

Proposal for Roadmapping of Galileo Applications and Services

All activities planned and performed within CASTLE can so be discussed with the target groups immediately.

Business & Markets Products & Services

close look at today’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) market clearly shows that there is a huge lack of information in regard to GNSS technologies, esp. on the development and major milestones of the GALILEO project, the products and services offered and the business opportunities resulting from the given pre-requisites. This leads to a rather slow ramp up of companies developing applications utilising the signals in future provided by the upcoming European satellite navigation system GALILEO, which is planned to be fully operational as of 2011. On the other hand, there is a need for encouragement of networking activities between market players involved, be it industry, research organizations and/or public authorities. All this was also confirmed by representatives throughout the GNSS community, i.e. the Bavarian Cluster Manager for Aerospace and Satellite Navigation, other representatives of public authorities, leading industry players and members of research institutions working in the SatNav environment. Having talked to representatives of different regions, some part of the CASTLE consortium (Prague, CZ / Leiden, NL), and some representing further European regions, e.g. Sophia-Antipolis, the tenor was quite the same. A regional initiative called CASTLE M - for the Munich region - has been launched end of March 2006. It brings together stakeholders from all economic sectors involved in and necessary for a successful implementation of a SatNav Cluster in the region: • Industry representatives (mostly SMEs) • Public authorities • Chamber of commerce • Financial sector and • CASTLE steering committee members

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CASTLE will identify trends with regard to GNSS and especially GALILEO and provide them to the target audience of the project. As a basis for the information process and communication process towards the market a technology roadmapping approach has been chosen. The reason for this was the conclusion that the lack of information mentioned above is much more than just “missing” information. Moreover there is a lack of understanding for the correlation between the different GNSS technologies (GPS, EGNOS, GALILEO and others) and the business opportunities arising out of it. This is mainly because there is no joint communication

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available on how these technologies interfere with each other. This again leads to a missing understanding of the enormous chances opened by entering these markets. Particularly, SMEs have difficulties in taking a decision to enter new markets without having reliable information on future chances. So the recommendation to the CASTLE steering committee was, to put together a roadmap document with the following purpose: • Outlining technological development steps and major milestones • Outlining services offered by the respective system and

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• Outlining business opportunities for enterprises (esp. SMEs) which want to involve in SatNav application and service development. The new European system GALILEO is a consequent enhancement of today‘s GNSS technology furthermore if compared to the features delivered by EGNOS in conjunction with GPS. Services available in this combination lead the way to GALILEO‘s approach in regards to integrity of signals, higher accuracy of positioning data, guaranteed signal quality for certain services and suitability for critical applications.

Markus Hasinger Eureka Group, Unterföhring

Introduction to CASTLE CASTLE is one of the cluster networks supported by the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry, within its Europe INNOVA initiative, www.europe-innova.org. Europe INNOVA comprises about thirty networks and Accompanying Measures many of them divided up in industrial sectors, but also providing horizontal trans-sectoral links and opportunities to join forces. Three out of the about 30 networks specialise in satellite navigation and space technology related fields, these are FINANCE Space, INVESaT and CASTLE. Addresses and contact details can be found on the rear page of this newsletter.

CASTLE Partners

CASTLE Consortium Partners CASTLE receives strong inputs from its four SME and company partners all active in the field of satellite-based applications and services operating close to market. This is Anywi, Leiden, NL; the AUTO TAG Group, Uvaly, CZ, EUREKA (ENS) and GAF, both based in Munich. Network co-ordination and scientific co-ordination are split between GründerRegio M (GRM), the knowledgebased start-off and innovation platform in the region of Munich and the Leiden-based Center for Technology and Innovation Management CeTIM. Both are supplemented in their expertise by the official Czech body for space affairs, the Czech Space Office (CSO), Prague and the Czech Technical University's Faculty of Transportation Sciences in Prague.

GründerRegio M is an initiative of the science and business region of Munich fostering knowledgebased spin-offs and start-ups. Since 1998 GründerRegio M has focused its activities on guiding entrepreneurs from academia towards a successful business career. Currently, it has more than 30 members, all engaged in start-up support. The objectives of GründerRegio M are: • Establishing a sustainable culture of entrepreneurship in the Munich region • Promoting an infrastructure that reduces costs and time involved in setting up a company and motivates to start a business • Increasing number and quality of university start-ups. • Representing the Munich region in European programs as a centre of excellence for innovative companies Through its various projects GründerRegio M offers services like training, coaching, flexible office space and networking for entrepreneurs. www.gr-m.de

CASTLE's work rests on five main pillars. These are • Analysis and evaluation of existing cluster management structures and assets in the three partner regions Leiden, Munich and Prague/Czech Republic • Exchange of best practices • Preparation for road mapping of Galileo and GNSS applications as part of market observation and trends • Fostering of joint activities between the three regions' institutions and cluster members • Dissemination through newsletters, articles, presence at exhibitions, organisation of and participation in workshops and conferences • Political recommendations for policy makers on the European level as well as to support cluster managers and political decision makers in the regions.

CeTIM is an international academic research and education institute at the University of Leiden, NL, and the University BW, Munich, D. The institute is composed of two competence centers. The Competence Center Innovation Management is conducting research in the area of entrepreneurial growth of technology based new ventures and their strategic management. The Competence Center Virtual Organisations deals with organisational forms of the knowledge society. CeTIM research is mainly organised in cooperative projects with international partners from industry and science. CeTIM Program Management Office stands for high quality in definition, development and management of research projects. CeTIM Academy offers “lifelong-learning” for the special needs of natural scientists and engineers, who seek entrepreneurial/managerial responsibility. www.cetim.org

These major activities are spread out over the runtime of 30 months and led by the work package leaders CeTIM, Czech Space, Eureka and GründerRegio M. All five work packages are kept together by a strategic and systematic arranging of CASTLE's activities in the satellite-based application and service scene in Europe and within the political environment of the three regions Leiden, Munich and Prague. CASTLE is an open scheme to participate, it is an offer to European regions to join in our activities and in workshops and contribute to our meetings and conferences by providing feedback and inputs to our work. Recent policy schemes on the fostering of lead markets in Europe seized on by the current Finnish Presidency of the European Council suggest an open regional innovation platform for Galileo applications and services as a next step to foster Galileo downstream markets. To be started as a European nucleus the three Europe INNOVA satnav/space networks will sign a common Memorandum of Understanding comprising - among others - a series of strategic workshops European regions will commit themselves to organise under a common roof. Jürgen Vogel GründerRegio M

Eureka Group has its origin in Eureka AG, a company based in Munich, Germany. Utilising the claim CONNECTING COMPETENCE Eureka Group offers both services and products. Eureka AG as an autonomous professional services company is focused on information and communication solutions, consulting and design of IT-solutions for tomorrow’s system environments in the automotive and aerospace industry. Eureka Navigation Solutions AG was founded in 2005 with the purpose to develop and realise commercial applications utilising the signals of the upcoming European GALILEO system. In close cooperation with public authorities, Eureka has committed to the development of the high-tech region Bavaria. www.eureka.de

CASTLE The Laboratory of Telematics (LT), founded in 2001, is part of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences (FTS) at the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU). It focuses on practical needs of transportation in the public / private sectors, develops and does research on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and has a key role in practical application of development and implementation of transport telematics. LT took the lead in “ITS in the transport and telecommunication conditions of the Czech Republic (CR)”, a research project supported by the Czech Ministry of Transport, addressing policy issues of ITS implementation, financial/business models for ITS and serving as basis of the

CR’s ITS strategy and architecture. LT has also established a well-functioning working relationship with industry partners, to develop and test in-car telematics units and services including voice communication, online transport data broadcasting and on-line navigation. Several ITS research projects lead by LT were successfully completed and implemented, to include RDSTMC in the CR, and two Galileo pilot projects for applications under conditions specific to CR. LT has assisted in numerous EU research projects such as e.g. CASTLE, CAPTIVE, REMOVE, ETNITE, CITT. CTU’s FTS is founding member of the Czech “Association for Transport Telematics (ATT)”. www.fd.cvut.cz

GAF AG, a private sector enterprise, was founded in 1985 to provide services centred on earth observation satellite data. These services were soon combined with other aspects such as information systems and satellite navigation and today GAF offers a broad range of applications in the field of geo-information. These range from geo-data procurement (satellite data, terrain models, land use and land cover data) to image processing and analysis, information process-

ing, software development and the provision of turnkey technical assistance projects and customised spatial information management and monitoring systems. Specific strengths developed during the years are the inclusion of institutional strengthening and capacity building in projects worldwide dealing with remote sensing technology, geographic databases and information systems. GAF belongs to the Telespazio group of companies. www.gaf.de

AutoTag Group, a.s. is a company implementing professional systems of vehicle monitoring as well as monitoring of transported goods in the supply chain with just in time system. AutoTag is developing combinations of the RFID technology with a satellite navigation system applicable also for security systems in the banking and trade sectors. We have also participated on development of an

unique system for Road/City toll and Parking systems based on combinations of RFID, GSM and GPS technologies.

Czech Space Office is a non-profit association. It was created in November 2003. The bodies of the association are the Management Board, the Supervisory Board and the Managing Director.

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The main activities of the Czech Space Office are: • Information and advisory centre in the space actions including international cooperation • Contact point for communication with ESA

AnyWi Technology BV, Leiden, NL, provides an intelligent data communication solution for mobile users. By managing data streams in a smart way users can rely on fast, reliable, secure and yet cost-efficient connections. AnyWi Technology focuses on Europe in the areas of transport – such as shipping companies - service organisations, public safety and security services. The AnyWi-gateway is an intelligent communication node designed specifically for mobile users. By means of this

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The company strives for the application of GPS alone or in combination with other technologies in the widest possible range of use not only in a common life but also trying to find new applications for Hi-Tech technologies. www.autotaggroup.cz

Republic representation in the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) • Contact between the Czech professional institutions and experts as well as for foreign organisations interested in space activities in the Czech Republic • Development of the space science • Facilitation of the space industry development and implementation of space applications. www.czechspace.cz gateway it is possible to cross connect different communication technologies such as e.g. WiFi, WiMAX, UMTS, GPRS, GSM, SMS, Ethernet, ISDN or InmarsatC. Numerous configurations are available to allow optimised routing between the different communication types. For security reasons each message or communication layer can be effectively protected using our company’s experience around enterprise wide secure protocols. www.anywi.com.

CASTLE Eurisy Conference Prague, April 2006

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CASTLE Kick-off Munich, Jan. 2006

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CASTLE News, November 2006 Published irregularly Mission statement: Providing information on the interaction between the three Satellite Navigation Clusters of Leiden, Munich and Prague. Please contact one of the partners if you would like to receive a free copy. © CASTLE, copies of the Newsletter for professional use only after written permission by the CASTLE network. Editor: CASTLE Co-ordination GründerRegio M, Munich Co-ordinating: PTS-Text, Munich Layout, DTP: >two8 grafikdesign | kommunikation, Munich Printing: Druckring, Munich Disclaimer: The articles feature opinions of the identified author(s) and not necessarily those of GründerRegio M.

Contact Addresses CASTLE CASTLE Network in Europe INNOVA Clusters in Aerospace and Satellite Navigation Technology Applications linked to Entrepreneurial Innovation www.satnav-business.eu, www.europe-innova.org Co-ordination CASTLE: GründerRegio M e.V. Frank-W. Strathmann Tel./Fax +49 89 2180-6302/-6304 [email protected] Jürgen Vogel Tel./Fax +49 89 321 978-10/-15 [email protected] Munich GründerRegio M e.V. Marc Jochemich Frankfurter Ring 193a / II r D-80807 München Tel./Fax +49 89 321 978-13/-15 [email protected] www.gr-m.de Eureka Group Markus Hasinger Betastr. 9a D-85574 Unterföhring Tel./Fax +49 89 55272-340/-5340 [email protected] www.eureka.de GAF AG Stefan Saradeth Arnulfstr. 197 D-80634 München Tel./Fax +49 89 121528-18/-79 [email protected] www.gaf.de

Leiden Scientific Co-ordination CASTLE CeTIM Leiden Bernhard R. Katzy Plantsoen 97 NL-2311 KL Leiden Tel./Fax +31-71-51257-70/-79 [email protected] www.CeTIM.org

Prague Ceská Kosmická Kancelár OPS Karel Dobeš Katerinska 10 CZ-12800 Prague 2 Tel. +420 603 55 7754 mob. +49 172 894 3373 [email protected] www.czechspace.cz

Anywi Technology BV Henk Uittenbogaard Plantsoen 97 NL-2311 KL Leiden Tel./Fax +31 71 5-13 1396 / 5-12 5779 [email protected] www.anywi.com

Czech Technical University Miroslav Svítek Faculty of Transportation Sciences Konviktska 20 CZ-110 00 Prague 1 Tel./Fax +420 224 359-547/-545 [email protected] www.fd.cvut.cz AutoTag Group a.s. Miloslav Tuma Touzimska 959/24c CZ-197 00 Praha 9, Kbely Tel./Fax +420 266 190 08-15/-3 [email protected] www.autotaggroup.cz

Sat/Nav/Space Partner Networks in Europe INNOVA FINANCE Space Network Co-ordinator Gabrio Boerci EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY-TEC SR PO Box 299 NL-2200 AG Noordwijk Tel./Fax +31 71 565 -3202 /-6635 [email protected] www.esa.int www.financespace-innova.com INVESaT Network Co-ordinator Robert Sanders EBN (European Business & Innovation Centre Network) Avenue de Tervueren, 168 bte 25 B-1150 Bruxelles Tel./Fax + 32 2 772-89 00/-9574 [email protected] www.ebn.be www.invesat.com