Blue economy

The Portuguese technology innovation consultancy Beta-i is increasingly focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), sustainability, and the blue economy. Essential Business met up with co-founder [...]

Text & Photo: Chris Graeme Portugal’s technology startup market is too small to be anything more than a pilot according to Pedro Ribeiro Santos of Armilar Venture Partners who spoke at the [...]

BNP Paribas, which has the largest market trading platform operating in Portugal, believes there is increasing interest in the Portuguese market from overseas investors, both for bonds, [...]

Portuguese companies have a new fund to boost the Blue Economy. Fundo Crescimento Azul which was launched on Monday is the first created on the back of the new instrument InvestEU for the Blue [...]

The venture capital fund Indico Blue Fund which is aimed at exporting SMEs has €36 million to invest in the Portuguese emerging Blue Economy. Indico Blue Fund, which was set up by Indico Capital [...]

The Champalimaud and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundations are to set up a €300 million Ocean Campus Technology Campus Hub through concession contracts with the Port of Lisbon. The initial upfront [...]

Portugal and Japan are rekindling an historic maritime connection in efforts to supercharge the future energy transition and stimulate blue economy growth.   As the first Europeans to reach [...]

Portuguese venture capital firm Faber announced today the launch of the firm’s new fund, Faber Blue Pioneers I, that will invest in early stage startups developing innovative deep tech solutions [...]

  The Irish Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien T.D. highlighted Ireland’s cross-government approach codeveloping the country’s first spatial plan, from [...]

  The European Green Deal and the Recovery Plan for Europe has the opportunity to define the European economy for many years to come and the EU’s Blue Economy is fundamental to make this [...]