NTT DATA main partner of the competition aimed at startups, university spin-offs and innovative SMEs. Deadline 30 August.
They are open until 30 August registrations toHarmonic Innovation Contest (HIC), to select entrepreneurial projects that leverage the tools of digital transformation, are capable of generating social and environmental impacts.
The program is open to already established innovative startups, university spin-offs and innovative SMEs. Projects that demonstrate concreteness and visionary strength in at least one of the following will be admitted sectors:
- Public,
- Energy,
- Telco & Media,
- Insurance,
- Banking,
- Manufacturing,
- Retail.
Relative to technological trajectories, the projects presented must cross at least one of the following areas: Data & Intelligence, Internet of Things, Customer Experience, Cybersecurity & Blockchain, Intelligent Automation, IT Optimization.
The Contest will crown seven winners (one per subject area), who will be accompanied in an incubation process, acceleration and market entry managed by Oltre Open Innovation Hub, with a contract that provides for a non-repayable basic co-investment of € 30.000,00, in the form of business development services. In addition, the winners will have the opportunity to meet corporate companies, research centers, institutional and private investors, participating as protagonists in the Harmonic Innovation Week (HIW) and the final round of the NTT DATA Open Innovation Contest.
The goal is to bring ideas and prototypes to further maturation, opening the beneficiaries to networks of value in terms of contribution of skills and capital, especially by offering them the possibility of being integrated and scaled, at the end of the route, in the business chains promoted by NTT DATA.
L’Harmonic Innovation Contest (HIC) is promoted by NTT DATA Italy it's yes Oltre Open Innovation Hub, in collaboration with University of Calabria e Bruno Kessler Foundation, with the Strategic Advisory of Entopan – Smart Networks & Strategies.
Link:
- to apply: contest.harmonicinnovation.it
- to download the announcement: Program HERE ;
- for general information: harmonicinnovation.it
