Disseminating innovation
Open innovation is based on sharing knowledge and experiences. The Port of Barcelona promotes different initiatives to disseminate its innovative activity both to its immediate environment and to society, especially through initiatives such as PierNext and Smart Ports.tv.
PierNext
PierNext is a digital knowledge hub promoted by the Port of Barcelona to disseminate the innovation that is transforming logistics and international trade, with special emphasis on the port and maritime field.
The trends and challenges in mobility, logistics, the environment, the economy, people, governance and technology are the great areas that inspire the hub when creating its content, available in three languages: Catalan, Spanish and English.
PierNext is a space for knowledge, analysis and reflection open to the collaboration of all those organisations organisations and people interested in contributing ideas, disruptive experiences and cutting-edge references in each of these fields.
You will also find studies and reports for free on trends in port and logistics innovation.
PierNext can help to tell the story of how the great digital revolution in international trade and ports took place, and to promote this transformation towards a more sustainable logistics and be part of it.
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Smart Ports tv
Smart Ports.tv is an instrument for disseminating the innovative activity of both the Port of Barcelona and the ports of Antwerp, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal, Busan and Rotterdam, which share a project and similar interests.
This showcase of port innovation projects promoted by these 7 leading ports worldwide, also wants to develop as a platform for relationship with other reference port enclaves and as an attractor of sectoral disruptive knowledge. One of its functions is to give voice to world-renowned researchers who talk about technology and innovation and present research and technological innovation projects, new patents and company creation, current affairs and everything related to the port and terminal industry.
The event ‘Smart Ports: Piers of the Future’ which shows the most ambitious projects of these port authorities, in technological and environmental terms, sustainability, digitisation, economy, social and mobility. Smart Ports, promotes the exchange of ideas with the major stakeholders in the port sector, to give relevance and visibility to their proposals, their business models and their advances and aims to show the importance of having a smart and digitised port, committed to the environment and connected with people and their cities.
