# Following the money: European Space Policy Institute research with João Falcão Serra

An episode of [Invested by Europe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1877067448), 25 Oct 2026, 21 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6983738692cc2b35f6ad153a/e/6ad4f0993243d006bba99c1e/media.mp3

João Falcão Serra leads industry and finance research at the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna. He explains how he tracks global investment in space companies and why European private funding is at record levels. He looks at the forces behind the boom, including defence demand, falling interest rates and the SpaceX IPO hype, and also points to a growing spread of investment in smaller economies like Finland, Bulgaria and Poland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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