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Indra one of the leading global technology and consulting companies has launched its fifth Innovators intrapreneurship and innovation initiative with which it will seek to continue mobilizing and stimulating the talent of its 48000 professionals around the world so as to enable them to enjoy the experience of innovation.As the winner of the 2020 National Innovation Award presented by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation in the Large Corporation category Indra maintains its firm commitment to ongoing innovation while its professionals a multidisciplinary network of experts throughout the world constitute a valuable source of ideas. This is demonstrated by Innovators which with a total of nearly 2000 ideas submitted by professionals from 40 different countries in the last four years has established itself as a key factor in driving the companys innovative culture and generating disruptive ideas with the potential to shape Indras future offer and reinforce its technological leadership.With this goal in mind the fifth call launched through Indraventures Indras corporate vehicle for promoting its open innovation model has proposed specific challenges that will shape the future of different sectors.The challenges include designing services offered by satellite constellations exploiting data to transform air traffic proposing business cases for phygital environments while combining the physical and digital worlds building customer loyalty through personalized digital offers and promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace. They are accompanied by the sixth hack-challenge to develop code prototypes that address the same goals using Onesait Platform the open source platform of Minsait an Indra company. Moreover in order to exploit the phygital component and acquire information on the physical environment the participants will have up to 30 rapid prototyping IoT device kits from the M5Stack ecosystem at their disposal.Indras professionals will be able to submit their ideas individually or in teams in Spanish English or Portuguese until July 29 via iParticipa another technological platform developed by Minsait which will also allow them to evaluate the proposals and comment and vote on them.Acceleration process for the best ideasIndraventures and Indras Innovation Committee made up of representatives of corporate units directors from all the business units and technological experts will choose the ideas for the final which will be joined by the one that receives the most votes from the professionals. Their authors will have to present their proposals by means of a one-minute elevator pitch in the style of startup investment rounds at the closing event scheduled for the end of the year at which the jury will announce the three winning ideas. In addition the physical and online attendees at the event will vote live for a fourth winning idea to reward the best pitch.The best ideas will enter an acceleration process for their materialization by means of a customized business plan developed by their authors who will be able to devote 10 of their working time to this goal for three months. They will also receive the support of the Indra business area related to their proposal in order to ensure that the ideas respond to the innovation priorities of the different markets and become real Indra products.Moreover the winning professionals will receive a cash prize of 5000 for each initiative and positive recognition in their annual performance evaluation.Center of the innovative ecosystemInnovators forms part of Indras innovation model which aims to expand and strengthen its global connection with the technological innovation ecosystems comprising startups entrepreneurs university research groups that are experimenting with emerging technologies and the companys own professionals.Each year also through Indraventures Indra analyzes more than a thousand startups and has signed several agreements. In addition Indra is a member of the Executive Committee of BFAero an accelerator in the aeronautical and unmanned aerial vehicle UAV sector. In addition to stimulating the talent of its professionals Indras open innovation model seeks through Indraventures to reinforce its technological leadership enhance its relationships with startups entrepreneurs and the entire innovative ecosystem be a driving force of RDI generate value for its customers and have a positive impact on society.This was acknowledged by the jury of the National Innovation Award in its reasons for awarding it the prize For genuinely representing the best values and principles of innovation in Spain for its importance in different sectors from the permanent standpoint of digitalization for constantly being at the forefront of international RDI and for playing an essential role as a driving force in promoting innovation within other companies placing particular emphasis on SMEs in the sectors that it leads.
