Aerospace Innovation: Four Indian Start-Ups  Selected For Airbus BizLab Accelerator Program

While a large number of aerospace ventures in the country struggle to turn innovation into commercial reality, aviation inventors and four start-ups from Bangalore have been selected to learn and showcase their innovation at the Airbus BizLab.

Selected from over 80 applicants belonging to seven different countries, these young innovators will spend time at Airbus’s global network of accelerator facilities – called BizLabs – to speed up the transformation of ground-breaking ideas into valuable business propositions.

According to its website, an Airbus BizLab provides wide-ranging support for early-stage projects in the form of a six-month acceleration programme. Start-up businesses and Airbus employee ‘intrapreneurs’ are given access to a large number of coaches, experts and mentors across various domains through these programs. Access to technology, legal, finance, marketing and communications, easing prototyping and market is provided to those who are selected.

According to the Hindu Business Line, among the four start-ups selected are Blue Morfo, Shoonya Games, Open Turf and Qualitas. While Blue Morfo is developing a mobile application to detect and prevent specific, corporate health-related, Shoonya Games is developing interactive gaming solutions for training and marketing purposes. Open Turf is about providing wireless in-flight entertainment using passengers’ personal devices and Qualitas offers automated quality-inspection systems for manufacturing, specialising in 2D and 3D machine vision.

After Toulouse (France) and Hamburg, the BizLab at Bangalore is Airbus’s third such project and is co-located with French start-up accelerator Numa.

In providing a platform to these start-ups, Airbus also enhances its own access to – and knowledge of – the latest ideas, technologies and ways of working for the aerospace sector and beyond.