Cross-border Start-ups accelerator
The 5 regions of the MarittimoTech project share 4 priority supply chains that are opportunities to stimulate their economy marked by the crisis and reach smart, inclusive and lasting growth objectives: leisure boating, shipyard, sustainable tourism, biotechnology and "blue" and "green" renewable energy. The development and pursuit of excellence of these sectors are springboards for young, innovative, high-potential companies with significant economic and geographical ambitions.  However, the lasting success of these companies (low 3-year survival rates and turnover compared to the national averages) clashes with scarce collaborative ties and synergies between the various forces (entrepreneurs, industries and universities) and lack of funding.  For this reason, the 8 MarittimoTech partners propose to design, develop, test and maintain a cross- border accelerator of startups specialised in the priority supply chains. MarittimoTech will provide selected startups (with a target of 45 startups in 2017-2018) with an intense 4-month support as follows: - Individual support and community workshops (training services, legal instruments, accountants and marketing) - Consultancy, webinars and possible synergies (Masterclasses) - Access to financing (cross-border Roadshows). The Accelerator will be both physical (for each project area) and virtual (by way of a Franco-Italian collaborative platform). It will also be an innovation laboratory with all the actors involved collaborating to single out new markets and technological solutions. In this way, MarittimoTech offers to the cooperation area a cross-border fabric of knowledge and specialities and fosters the cross-border complementarity of smart regional specialisations.