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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Corporate video of 52 seconds about PierNext, the innovation platform of the Port of Barcelona, published on September 14, 2018, on the official Port of Barcelona channel. The visual content shows dynamic images of the Port of Barcelona, ships, container terminals, port infrastructure, and advanced technologies, with a cinematic style and fast pace. The video presents PierNext as an innovation initiative driven by the Port of Barcelona to promote digital transformation and the development of new technological solutions in the port and logistics field. Visually, scenes of startups, entrepreneurs, coworking spaces, and technology demonstrations can be seen, as well as logos and representative images of the PierNext program. The tone is corporate, promotional, and inspiring, with energetic background music. There is no voice-over or dialogue; information is conveyed exclusively through the dynamism of the images, visual text, and music.
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.
One-minute promotional video about the Smart Ports: Piers of the Future 2021 event, organized by the Port of Barcelona and published on November 26, 2021, on the official Port of Barcelona channel. The visual content shows dynamic images of the Port of Barcelona, ships, container terminals, port infrastructure, and advanced technologies, with a cinematic style and fast pace. The video highlights the success of the #SmartPortsBCN event, which brought together more than 3,000 viewers from around the world to drive port innovation. Visually, logos and representative images of the participating ports are shown: Antwerp, Busan, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Rotterdam, as well as the collaboration with Smart City Expo. The tone is corporate, promotional, and inspiring, with energetic background music. There are no dialogues or voice-over; information is conveyed exclusively through visual text and the dynamism of the images.
