Reto de innovación: Digitalización y Sostenibilidad

IMPAQTO, BID Lab and Google for Startups launch the Innovation Challenge: Digitalization and Sustainability, an initiative to boost startups that generate disruptive and high impact solutions to the challenges SMEs face in Latin America. PURPOSE: To make participating startups grow and develop their business models to solve the challenges that Latin America faces in innovation, technology, social impact, digitalization, sustainability, etc. DURATION: The Innovation Challenge: Digitization and Sustainability will be held from 24 to 27 October.

ELIGIBILITY: Participants must be older and have availability to commit to the stipulated time period, the bases set forth in this document, and work on diverse teams, curated by the organizers.

LATAM startups with ambition to generate disruptive and innovative solutions, in the field of digitalization and sustainability and who want to implement their solutions in SMEs and MIPYMEs of the region.  Features of participating startups should be:

• Contain a Technology Base
• High Innovation
• Scalability Capacity
• With solutions implemented and validated
• Based on any part of Latin America.
• Developing products or services in new or existing markets.
• Interest in creating value and implementation in SMEs.
• Digitisation in different industries
• Sustainability in social area, economic and/or environmental.

  TIME LINE THAT DESCRIBES THE STEPS: