Acciona I’mnovation
ACCIONA is a leading international company in sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy solutions. The company is a benchmark in the creation of an innovative ecosystem that provides room for startups to solve the great challenges of the future of infrastructures, electricity generation and mobility, based on sustainability and the circular economy. Its collaboration program with startups seeks co-innovation to promote disruptive technologies and new businesses that help develop transformative infrastructures aligned with Sustainable Development Goals.
I’MNOVATION Startups is ACCIONA’s open innovation program with startups, and the first specific ecosystem for infrastructures and renewable energies in Spain, a pioneer in Europe. Launched in 2017, in 2019 it extended its scope to Latin America with several challenges led from Chile.
This program is a collaboration model with startups that combines the experience of the multinational with the agility of companies in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Currently, up to two calls a year are made, offering startups the opportunity to test their solutions in real environments linked to one of ACCIONA’s businesses around the world, and access to financing, operational, technical and business support with the advice of experts and professionals from ACCIONA.
The program is backed by the success achieved over the last three years, in which more than 1,000 startups from all over the world have presented technological solutions and 40 have developed pilots with the company.
Depending on the result of the pilot project and in a personalized way, the Startups will have the possibility to access new opportunities, close agreements to continue the scaling of the proposed solution or receive funding from ACCIONA. So far, 2 out of 3 of those that have developed pilots with ACCIONA have signed agreements to continue working with the company.
With I’MNOVATION Startups, the ACCIONA group seeks to incorporate passionate entrepreneurs and creative minds into its ecosystem that will provide viable solutions with the potential for scalability and global expansion to meet the challenges posed by the company. With I’MNOVATION, ACCIONA places itself at the core of the innovation ecosystem of its business sectors, making it the main agent of its future.
I’MNOVATION #Startups has been recognized by Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) as the most innovative program with startups in Europe in the last two years. In the last edition of Startup Olé, the organization recognized ACCIONA with the award for “Best Corporation”.
News
ACCIONA launches fith round of the I’MNOVATION #Startups program
ACCIONA has announced the fifth round of I’MNOVATION #Startups, its open innovation programme in which entrepreneurs from around the world can submit ideas to address the main technology challenges that the Group faces in its business areas. Selected companies will enter a six-month accelerator programme in which, with Group funding, they will work with […]
Energy companies promote the Positive Energy+ initiative to alleviate the impact of coronavirus through innovation
Positive Energy+ is a pioneering initiative in Spain, created by several companies, that uses innovation as the main tool to offer effective responses to help alleviate the economic and social impact of COVID-19.
Acciona and Mind The Bridge Analyse Spain’s Scaleups thorugh the new report “Tech Scaleup Spain 2019”
The Spanish scaleup ecosystem in 2018 still ranks 5th in Europe in terms of the number of scaleups (317 in total), and 6th in the capital raised (4 Billions of dollar in total). Though, investing 800 millions of dollar per year, it remains quite far from the top countries in terms of capital invested (Germany, […]
Acceleration calls focused on startups and entrepreneurs during the month of October 2019
Many corporations such as Abanca, Acciona, Iberdrola, Banco Sabadell, Bankia as well as specialized accelerators have decided to launch their acceleration calls after summer and all of them will coincide with the celebration of the South Summit in Madrid from 2 to 4 October, an important time of the year as the Spanish ecosystem is concentrated throughout the week in Madrid.
Acciona will launch its startup accelerator in Chile for all of Latin America
Acciona will launch in Chile its open innovation platform, Acciona’s I’mnovation, in September to broaden the scope of its corporate accelerator to Latin America. This program in Chile is the first to be launched outside Europe, and is intended to integrate the company’s innovation approaches developed by its Latin American teams with breakthrough technologies developed by startups and technology partners.