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Innovation Ecosystem
Working on tomorrow's innovations
Credit: Claire Droppert
Always one step ahead
If you want to be at the forefront of developments and stay one step ahead of your competitors, Rotterdam is the place to be. The Innovation Ecosystem is a logical result of Rotterdam's DNA and its maritime sector. It is the ideal city for people who see opportunities and go for them. People who have boundless ambition and persevere where others start to doubt. For both start-ups and companies that aspire to be a ‘launching customer’ or want to accelerate their own innovations.
For Artificial Intelligence-based technologies that will eventually sail ships autonomously. For the largest wind turbine in the world. For new fuels and energy sources such as hydrogen, batteries and biofuels to make ship operations cleaner. For block chain technology to make logistics processes and value chain collaboration even more efficient. All innovations that boost digitisation and the energy transition process in the port. Because they go beyond the existing supply chains and create new value models.
Credit: Claire Droppert
Less risk, greater chance of success
Most innovations are conceived and brought to maturity in collaboration across the value chain and in co-production between government agencies, the business community and education. Collaborating at an early stage reduces the financial risks and increases the chance of success. Together with the end customer, innovative ideas are conceived, developed, tested as a scale model, modified, tested and modified again. Flexibility that delivers speed. The likelihood that innovations will find their way to the market is high, which makes your business competitive. With large and reputable companies as customers, new technologies not only become viable, start-ups can also flourish to become sustainable partners in the maritime sector.
