Space to Grow with Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau

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In Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier, Matthew C. Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau discuss the discuss the history, the present, and the future of the space economy.

Weinzierl is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and founder of the Economics of Space project at HBS. Rosseau is an Orbital Launch strategy manager at the American space technology company Blue Origin. Together, they provide in-depth academic and practitioner perspectives on the space economy.

In their conversation with Nikolaus Lang, global leader of the BCG Henderson Institute, they discuss the central governance vs. market-driven models of the space economy, the geopolitics of space, and whether the first trillionaire will be an asteroid miner.

Key topics discussed:

02:03 | The three phases of the space economy

05:28 | Central governance vs. market-driven model of the space economy

08:23 | Geopolitics of space

11:33 | The market structure of the space economy (on Earth)

17:14 | Space junk

21:03 | Asteroid mining

23:47 | How to make space interesting again

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