


We involved policy makers and business support agencies to provide the ecosystem of a legal and long-term support. The PROTOATLANTIC network allowed us to find the best place to build and test the prototype, and to identify the best places for the company to establish and launch its business. The acceleration programs attracted innovative ideas, covering from business model to market validation, including test phases in the most important European infrastructures. For that purpose, we implemented an acceleration program, starting from ideation to market access where a normed and structured process was used to manage product innovation. We based the project actions in existing co-working spaces and blue acceleration programs specialized in the marine sector and replicated success stories. We involved policymakers and business support agencies to provide the ecosystem of legal and long-term support. We identified product innovation capacity in the maritime sector willing to address emerging markets in a cocreation paradigm with the local start-up communities, research centres and universities. The main objective of the project was to develop a model for the prototyping and exploitation of innovative ideas in the maritime sector.
