Aitor Moringo is executive vice president of Satlantis, the U.S. subsidiary of a 10-year-old Spanish company that makes satellite technology used to study the earth from the International Space Station. Its secret sauce is a “super resolution” algorithm that allows for non-blurry images in space. The technology has applications in other industries, like agriculture, where companies are increasingly using images to study the health of crops.

Matthew Donovan is one of Moringo’s neighbors at UF Innovate, the business accelerator at University of Florida. His company, AgIntel, sells software that allows growers to analyze the nutrients in a plant. AgIntel was relying on ground sensors and drone imagery for analysis until Donovan met Moringo at the incubator last year.

Accelerators like UF Innovate are crucial to the early-stage economy, and to innovation in the United States. It’s at places like these that new technologies can be brought to the market, including technologies that with a profound effect on people’s lives and health. One UF Innovate company, for instance, is MYOLYN, which makes therapy systems for people with neurological disorders and injuries, like multiple sclerosis or stroke.