TY - BOOK ID - 7986314 TI - The space economy at a glance 2007 AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. AU - OECD International Futures Programme. PY - 2007 SN - 1281745952 9786611745950 9264040846 926403109X PB - Paris : OECD, DB - UniCat KW - Regional economics. KW - Space in economics. KW - Space sciences -- Economic aspects -- Statistics. KW - Space industrialization KW - Space sciences KW - Economic aspects KW - Science and space KW - Space research KW - Commercial endeavors in space KW - Industrial uses of space KW - Industries in space KW - Manufacturing in space KW - Space commercialization KW - Space manufacturing KW - Space stations KW - Industrial applications KW - Cosmology KW - Science KW - Astronomy KW - Industrialization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7986314 AB - Space applications are becoming an increasingly important part of everyday life. Weather forecasting, air traffic control, global communications and broadcasting, disaster management -- these and many other key activities would be almost unthinkable today without satellite technology. The space industry itself is relatively small compared to other manufacturing sectors, but its technological dynamism and strategic significance mean that it plays an ever more critical role in modern society. Paradoxically, it also figures among the sectors which are the least developed in terms of robust, internationally comparable statistics and data. This book attempts to rectify that situation by assembling information from a wide range of official and non-official sources. Together these paint a richly detailed picture of the space industry, its downstream services activities, and its wider economic and social impacts. Who are the main space-faring nations? How large are revenues and how much employment is there in the sector? How much R&D goes on, and where? What is the value of spin-offs from space spending? Answers to these and other questions are provided in this first-ever OECD statistical overview of the emerging space economy. A dynamic link (StatLink) is provided for graphs, which directs the user to a web page where the corresponding data are available in Excel® format. ER -