At the ESA Business Incubation Centre Bavaria ‘1000 jobs created’ event 24 April 2013 in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, the driving organisations for the incubation success in creating the many new high-tech jobs met. From left, German Aerospace Center DLR board member Dr Gerd Gruppe, Bavaria’s Minister for Economic Affairs Martin Zeil, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Thorsten Rudolph, CEO of Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO), which operates ESA BIC Bavaria under contract to ESA.