ITGreen: The Experience of Porto Digital Technology Park in order to Contribute to a Sustainable Innovation Habitat

In today's global context of new technologies and the consumption of technological equipment, the fast obsolescence of these equipment, the few alternatives for electronics waste disposal and treatment, and the finitude of natural resources used its production, it is urgent to integrate sustainable attitudes in innovation environments. Considering that IT clusters are major producers and consumers of ICT, it has the potential to contribute to the sustainable management of ICT. Therefore, Porto Digital, as one of the largest technology parks in the country, created "ItGreen - Centre of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management", that is designed to act as a mechanism through which Porto Digital offers its contributions to the development of a Sustainable Innovation Habitat, promoting an environmentally friendly entrepreneur culture, contributing to the increase of the companies competitiveness and to the region development. It is also noteworthy that ItGreen can be easily replicated in other innovation environments.