NEWTON 4.0
New Tourism Opportunities Network
Challenge
Stimulate the innovation and entrepreneurship in the tourism sector of the Central Region, through the creation of pilot projects involving startups to solve real problems of challengers/players in the sector.
Solution
Open Innovation Program with insight of creating new goods/services and carrying out pilot projects that meet specific needs in the tourism sector.
Objectives, Activities and Results expected / achieved
Newton 4.0 aims to foster new disruptive tourism-based projects and stimulate the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Central region. Through the development of pilot projects, it is intended to find solutions for real needs of companies in the tourism sector, by means of innovative startups that thus see the range of possible markets widened.
The project includes training and networking sessions, with startups (challenged) seeking to develop and implement pilot projects that seek to solve the challenges posed by SMEs (challengers).
Project Reference
Programa FIT - Fostering Innovation in Tourism 2020-2021Funding
Intervention Region
Center of PortugalTotal Investment
74.910,00IPN Investment
74.910,00Total Eligible
74.910,00IPN Eligible
74.910,00National public financial support – Total
74.910,00National public financial support – IPN
74.910,00Duration
9 MonthsStart Date
2020-09-01End Date
2021-06-30Approval Date
2020-06-01Consortium
Partners
RIERC;IPN Incubadora (HIESE);
Turismo Do Centro de Portugal
Keywords
NEWTON4.0;Tourism;
Open Innovation
