Dr Chiaki Mukai var hjärtkirurg och forskare när hon rekryterades som astronaut i Japan på 1980-talet. Hon har varit med på två rymdfärder och då ansvarat för olika experiment inom rymdmedicin och livsvetenskap. I dag är hon chef för Japan Aerospace Exploration Agencys (JAXA) Center for Applied Space Medicine and Human Research, och Vice President för Tokyo University of Science.
April 25, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden – Last week in Amsterdam, Red Herring announced its Red Herring Europe award winners this evening at the Top 100 forum, recognizing Europe’s leading private companies and celebrating these companies innovations and technologies across their respective industries. The Swedish innovation company Umbilical Design was chosen as a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner
Svenska innovations och hållbarhetsinitiativet Down to Earth samlade ett dussintal av världens främsta experter inom hållbarhet, innovation och rymdteknik till Swedish Sustainability Space Day i Shanghai i söndags. Tillsammans med toppintressenter från akademi, industri och samhälle konstaterade man att öppna innovation och lärdomar från rymden kan skapa ett mer hållbart samhälle.
Jonkoping International Business School, Umbilical Design and Googol in collaboration with Tillvaxtverket, have launched Down to Earth – a project that will result in exciting new jobs and contribute to sustainable economic growth.
Umbilical Design AB was founded in 2001 by industrial designer Cecilia Hertz, and since its inception has worked with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) on design for the space industry. Umbilical Design has also been successful in showing how design, technology and material from the space industry can be transferred to Swedish enterprise and society. During 15 years Umbilical Design has been appointed as ESA innovation partner. Umbilical Design oversees transfer of technology from the space sector to Swedish industry with the overarching objective to stimulate business opportunities by exploiting the materials knowledge, methods and approaches of the space sector. Our main focus is to commercialize space technologies for a sustainable earth. Umbilical Design is a proud winner of 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe. www.umbilicaldesign.se
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