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The Space Economy at a Glance (2011) provides a statistical overview of the global space sector and its contributions to economic activity. This publication is an updated, more comprehensive version of The Space Economy at a Glance (2007), the first-ever OECD statistical overview of the emerging space economy. The new edition provides not only recent indicators and statistics based on both official and private data, but also a strategic outlook that identifies key issues for the future. The figures cover many countries, and, for first the time, include various official statistics concerning the Indian and Chinese space programmes.
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The Space Economy at a Glance provides a quantitative, internationally comparable view of not only the space sector itself, but also its broader role in the economy and society. This 2011 edition brings together published and unpublished data and statistics from official and unofficial sources, as well as from OECD databases that cover a wide range of space applications, public space budgets, space sector revenues, trade in space products and space patents to name but a few, in order to illustrate the economic and societal impacts of space-based activities.
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The geopolitical landscape of the world has considerably changed in two decades and this can also be seen in the strategic space sector. This first chapter features some key issues that could shape the future of the sector including: the emergence of a new world map of space powers, the growing role of commercial actors, the evolution of a skilled workforce in the space sector, and the development of new technologies and innovative applications on the horizon.
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