At a glance
NEPTUNE implements a Blue Growth Accelerator supporting the development of new cross-sectoral and cross-border industrial value-chains mixing Water, Aerospace, ICT and Agriculture technologies.
Learn moreNEPTUNE which stands for New Cross Sectoral Value Chains Creation across Europe Facilitated By Clusters for SMEs’ Innovation in Blue Growth, is an innovation action project supported by the European Commission and its HORIZON 2020 programme under the call for proposal INNOSUP-1-2015 Cluster facilitated projects for new value chains. The project brings together the expertise of 8 clusters, 2 cluster and entrepreneurship support organisations, 1 engineer school and 1 consultant company from 7 European countries: France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden.The accelerator runs for 30 months until December 2018.
Objectives
The overall project’s objective is to foster the development of Blue Growth industries in Europe and beyond.
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STAR methodology boosts project emergence
STAR : Structured and sTructuring Animation methodology for emeRgence
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Partners
The project brings together the expertise of 8 clusters, 2 cluster and entrepreneurship support organisations, 1 engineer school and 1 consultant company from 7 European countries: France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden.
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Entrepreneurship and innovation support toolbox
Technical and financial supports are provided by the NEPTUNE project team to selected SMEs to develop their projects.
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Innovative Open Space Platform
A collaborative space dedicated to SMEs and other stakeholders to identify market trends and opportunities and support the incubation of Blue Growth projects and innovation ideas.
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