Aid has a crucial role in providing technical guidance to businesses, but not in big projects for governments, which are an invitation for corrupt administrations to enrich themselves.

There are pointers to red tape: eg, technical guidance on minerals and flood-risk; environmental impact assessments and habitats regulations.

The corporation provides technical guidance and advice on all aspects of space missions to military, civil, and commercial customers to assure space mission success.

More specifically, it coordinates the evaluation and monitoring of centrally authorised products and national referrals, developing technical guidance and providing scientific advice to sponsors.

Critics note the lack of technical guidance and disruptive commercial breaks.