Name:
NEPTUNE Blue Growth Accelerator

Developed by:
NEPTUNE consortium

Country(ies) involved:
France, Greece, Italy, Spain

Funding sources:
H2020 /Innovation action project

General idea:
NEPTUNE implemented a Blue Growth Accelerator supporting the development of new cross-sectoral and cross-border industrial value-chains mixing Water, Aerospace, ICT and Agriculture technologies through a direct support scheme to SMEs.

Description:
NEPTUNE stands for New Cross Sectoral Value Chains Creation across Europe Facilitated By Clusters for SMEs’ Innovation in Blue Growth. Neptune accelerator relied on an innovative and collaborative platform to support the emergence of cross-sectoral and cross-border solutions developed by SMEs as well as on a toolkit toa ccompany and financially support SME innovative projects. This toolkit included two services: a series of coaching and mentoring services provided by the Neptune consortium and a financial support of up to 60 000 euros per selected SME (grant in the form of innovation vouchers)

TRL:
NA

Sources:
http://www.neptune-project.eu/