Oxford Handbook of the New Space Economy

This handbook on the "New" Space Economy (NSE) offers the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary space economy. The "new" is characterized by commercialization, greater participation of the private sector, innovation, and increased engagement of national governments. Using multiple approaches, the volume conceptualizes the boundaries of an emerging field of inquiry, characterized by continuity and change and involving terrestrial and extraterrestrial activities. It covers the fundamental economic, institutional, and technological dynamics and assesses the socio-economic impact of the NSE. Largely a US and European phenomenon, the evolution of the NSE in other spacefaring nations such as China, India, Japan, and Russia is also examined.

In The Oxford Handbook of the New Space Economy, chapters by both academics and practitioners systematically address the changing institutional arrangements, interactions between public and private actors, and the role of innovations and entrepreneurship. As constellations of satellites for earth observations, telecommunications, the internet, GPS, and other civilian applications tackle climate change and monitor natural disasters, the unsustainability of space activities due to orbital congestion and space debris is a reality. The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, which views space as a "global commons," needs revisiting to address regulatory challenges in space mining and other uses of extraterrestrial resources. This volume advances the state of knowledge on the dynamics of an emerging new space economy, identifies key stakeholders, and opens up future research areas for policymaking.

List of contents

• INTRODUCTION


• 1. : Anthony P. D Costa: The Making of a New Space Economy


• PART 1: CONCEPTS, METHODOLOGIES, AND ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES


• 2. : Tina Highfill: Concepts and Methodologies for Measuring the US Space Economy


• 3. : Marit Undseth and Claire Jolly: Defining and Measuring the Space Economy to Support Policy Making


• 4. : Akhil Rao and Doyoung Park: The Economics of Space Development


• 5: Jeffrey Wagner: The Economics of Sustainable Space Waste Management


• 6. : R. J. Briggs and Mann Virdee: The Economics and Policy of Space Debris and Orbital Management


• 7. : Nodir Adilov, Peter J. Alexander, and Brendan M. Cunningham: The Economics of the Satellite Launch Industry


• 8: Gelsomina Catalano, Valentina Morretta, and Massimo Florio: A Cost-Benefit Framework to Assess the Socioeconomic Impacts of Space Investments


• PART 2: STATE, PRIVATE ACTORS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SHIFTS


• 9. : Matthew C. Weinzierl: The Evolving Roles of Public and Private Actors in Space Since 2000


• 10: Luca del Monte and Marco Aliberti: The Role of Public Actors in Space Commercialization


• 11. : Sarah Lieberman, Harald Köpping Athanasopoulos, and Thomas Hoerber: The Institutional Origins of the Commercialization of the Space Economy in Europe


• 12. : Paolo Castelnovo, Stefano Clò, Francesco Giffoni, and Matteo Landoni: Public Procurement for the New Space Economy


• 13. : Mariel Borowitz: Shifting Institutional Roles in the Space Situational Awareness and Space Domain Awareness Sector


• 14. : Dmitry Payson: Space Industry Ecosystem


• 15. : Joel Lisk: New Space as a Trigger for New Law


• 16. : Yun Zhao and Zhiming Xiao: China s Changing Legal Regime in the Era of Space Commercialization and Privatization


• PART 3: INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND MANAGEMENT


• 17. : Ken Davidian: Industry Emergence Research for the New Space Economy


• 18. : Greg Autry: Entrepreneurship and Commercialization in the US New Space Economy


• 19. : Angelo Cavallo, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, and Vareska van de Vrande: An Ecosystem Perspective on Space Entrepreneurship and Space Affordances


• 20. : Paola Belingheri, Turan Panahli, and Maria Isabella Leone: Patent Strategies in the New Space Economy


• 21. : Alessandro Comune and Tobias Engel: Supply Chain Management in the New Space Economy


• 22. : Katarzyna Malinowska and Micha? Szwajewski: Risk and Insurance in the New Space Economy


• 23. : Peter Martinez, Ian Christensen, Clare Fairfield, and William Parker: Responsible Investment Considerations for Space Sustainability


• 24. : Hank C. Alewine, Basil P. Tucker: Accounting for the New Space Economy


• 25. : Paola Belingheri, Silvia Bianchi, Coraline Dalibot, Marcelle Laliberté, Alice Pellegrino, and Sahana Shastry: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the New Space Economy


• PART 4: SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF NSE


• 26. : Shawn Kantor, Spencer A. McCloy, and Alexander Whalley: The Economic Legacy of the Space Race in the United States


• 27. : Luisa Corrado, Stefano Grassi, and Aldo Paolillo: Measuring the Technological and Economic Effects of Space Activities


• 28. : Francesca Monaco, Davide Vurchio, and Lorenzo Zirulia: The Economics of Earth Observation Data in the New Space Economy


• 29. : Ward A. Hanson: The Internet and the Space Economy


• 30. : Alessandro Paravano, Giorgio Locatelli, and Paolo Trucco: Impacts of Satellite-based Applications on the UN s Sustainable Development Goals


• 31. : Bohumil Dobo and Jakub Pra ák: Geoeconomics and the Space Power Competition


• 32. : Mark Hilborne: NewSpace, Commercialization, and Warfare


• 33. : Melissa de Zwart, Stacey Henderson, and John Culton: International Space Law for the Commercial Exploitation of Space Resources


• PART 5: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES ON NSE EVOLUTION


• 34. : Dmitry Payson and Ivan Kosenkov: Changing Dynamics in Russia s Space Economy


• 35. : Jiwei Qian: The Role of the State and the National Innovation System in China s Space Economy


• 36. : Deepika Jeyakodi and Narayan Prasad: State, Policies, and the Rise of NewSpace in India


• 37. : Quentin Verspieren, Masayasu Ishida, and Kazuto Suzuki: The Logic of Commerce and the Evolution of Japan s National Space Program


• 38. : Hyoung Joon An: Socio-technical Analysis of Korea s Space Economy Transition


• 39. : Robert C. Harding: Space Security and Economic Development in Argentina and Brazil


• 40. : Micha? Szwajewski, Katarzyna Malinowska, Bartosz Malinowski, Pawe? Pacek, and Kaja Hopej: Central and Eastern European Space Sector in the Wider European Space Ecosystem


• 41. : Luiz Guilherme de Oliveira and Susan Elizabeth Martins Cesar de Oliveira: Brazil in the New Geographies of International Space Cooperation


• POSTSCRIPT


• 42. : Anthony P. D Costa: The New Space Economy and Distributive Implications on Earth

About the author

Anthony P. D'Costa is an Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne. He taught at the University of Washington, National University of Singapore, Copenhagen Business School, University of Melbourne, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has published extensively on the political economy of development in India and industrial transformation in East Asia, and currently finishing his fourteenth book, Indian Business, Economic Development, and the Jobs Dilemma in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford University Press) and contributing to an edited volume Designing India: From 1947 to the Present.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.03.2026
• EAN: 9780198881049
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888104-9
• No. of pages: 968
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Environmental Economics, International Economics, Political Economy, Space, planets and extraterrestrial locations