Open Innovation

The Ports 4.0 capital fund is the corporate open innovation model adopted by Puertos del Estado and the Spanish Port Authorities to attract, support and facilitate the application of talent and entrepreneurship to the Spanish public and private port-logistics sector in the context of the 4th industrial revolution.

The main objective of the Fund is to actively promote and incorporate disruptive or incremental innovation as an element of competitiveness, efficiency, sustainability, safety and security in the Spanish port logistics sector, both public and private, to facilitate its transition towards the 4.0 economy. Ports 4.0 will encourage the creation or consolidation of a network of start-ups, spin-offs or new lines of business in the technological field in existing companies that develop innovative products, services or processes for the port logistics sector with a market orientation.

The Spanish Ports Tradetech Fund, Ports 4.0, is aimed at all national and international entrepreneurs and companies with innovative ideas or projects capable of improving the efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability of the port-logistics sector and, in general, of trade, and with the capacity for development and growth in the market through business projects, including intra-entrepreneurship in the working environment of the Port Authorities and The Public Body Puertos del Estado.

The Fund is aimed at financing any phase of the innovation process (ideation, validation, acceleration, prototyping and growth). It is not only associated with clearly disruptive new technologies, but also with the development of new, more efficient processes and business models based on the verticals of the 4.0 economy (Big Data, IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Additive Printing, Robotics, Automation, https://ports40.es/ Analytics, etc.).

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