SHERPA DO MAR: Euroregional platform to promote competitiveness in the maritime and maritime field through the promotion of technology-based companies

Sherpa do Mar intends to boost the creation and consolidation of new knowledge-intensive business activities in the marine-maritime environment, favoring job creation and increasing business competitiveness through:

• Creation of a transboundary ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurship in the marine-maritime context.
• Creation of companies in the marine-maritime sector with high added value through the enhancement of technological-scientific synergies.
• Improving the competitiveness of pre-existing companies through the drive for innovation.
• Sherpa do Mar will implement the following activities:
• Sectoral diagnosis and identification of the actors that will form the Euro-regional Sherpa do Mar platform.
• Design of a new methodology for monitoring and boosting innovative technology-based companies: Sherpa Journeys.
• Scientific-technical monitoring and knowledge transfer promotion program.
• Implementation of the Sherpa Journeys methodology for valuing innovative technology-based business projects.
• Selection and enhancement of 12 innovative technology-based business projects in the marine-maritime sector.
• Itinerary for the improvement of the capacities of 20 companies in the sector, stimulating the link with transfer entities, boosting R+D+i and sustainable growth.