This episode was recorded at the beginning of the pandemic, during WeAre Summit 2020. As Head of the Innovation and Ventures Office, Frank is overseeing the largest Space Entrepreneurship network in the world. His team has initiated over 360 industry transfers and supported nearly 1000 start-ups. He supports the exploitation of the ESA patent portfolio and promotes the ESA BA (Business Applications) offer of ESA which has supported an additional over 600 business cases. In the next 3 years, ESA Space Solutions will invest 220 Mio Euro in the seed.