Startups Contributing to Solve Cities Problems: The Case of Porto Digital

Porto Digital outstands as an Urban Technology Park in the third most densely populated city of Brazil, Recife, Pernambuco. The main difference of Porto Digitals sustainability strategy is that it not only raises socio environmental awareness of entrepreneurs and society but it also promotes and supports the conditions for the creation and development of ICT startups to solve some of the contemporary urban problems throughout open challenges and more directly by incubating solutions-oriented products/services. This paper presents the details of 03 startup competitions, their results, the benefits they have provided for the environment and the society in general, and the prospects for the years to come in Porto Digitals sustainability area (ITgreen - Innovation and Sustainability).