Elevating the scalability potential of EU Smart Cities’ business for green and sustainable deep tech based solutions
▶Summary
The FINEST SCALEUP project brings together leading research and innovation actors to establish the Baltic Sear Region countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Poland, onwards referred to as the ‘BSR-5’, as a cross-border, inclusive and gender equal Deep tech innovation ecosystem with the main goal to support companies, start-ups and entrepreneurs to showcase innovative technologies, attract investment and reach global markets.The FINEST SCALEUP addresses the lack of scale-up funding for startups from 'Less Connected and Developing Innovation Ecosystems', particularly those women-led and from the Deep tech sector .It leverages on the FinEst Centre, as a world-class Centre of Excellence for Smart Cities Research and Innovation, has developed a cross-border knowledge transfer infrastructure (Urban Operating Platform) that supports its piloting programme, with a combined 100M€ budget to invest in research heavy solutions that have a strong potential to develop into deep tech companies. In the FINEST SCALEUP project, the FinEst Centre capitalises on Finnish-Estonian macro region’s scientific and empirical knowledge to build and strengthen the innovation potential of gender neutral deep tech entrepreneurship across the BSR-5.