Solutions should be related to innovative technologies used in automation and robotisation of manufacturing processes and take into account future trends.

The innovation must relate to technologies leading to the development of innovative products, technologies, processes or significant improvements to existing ones.

• Smart cities.
• Smart homes and buildings.
• Smart factories and smart enterprises.
• Smart/intelligent transport systems.
• Smart vehicles.
• Smart grids, such as electricity, heat, fuel, water, sewerage, communications, telecommunications
  (including intelligent network management systems).

A closed loop economy is a business model that minimises the consumption of resources and the generation of waste. Innovations should fit in with these assumptions.