Portuguese companies in the race for the best technology News Journal

Is pumping the race that the companies crash for the better technology, one that will allow them to win in the global market.

This is the first of the conclusions of the meeting, “PITSTOP – Tune Technology and Entrepreneurship”, which took place on Wednesday under the auspices of COTEC Portugal (Business Association for Innovation, non-profit). The meeting counted with the participation of investors, startups and spinoffs in the university.

The idea was to cross to the interventions of Carlos Martins Andrade, the officer responsible for the Development and Innovation of Galp Energia, Cipriano Lomba, Efacec; David Braga Malta, from the Capital; Joaquim Sérvulo Rodrigues, CEO of Espírito Santo Ventures; Michael Mata, of Sonae Capital; and Pedro Pinheiro, CEO of Change Partners.

at A time which decreases the investment in R&D of the countries COTEC (Portugal, Spain and Italy), and sharply in Portugal, “it becomes even more important the proximity to the resources of the excellence of our universities and centres of technology transfer national to take technology to the Portuguese companies. This is not to lose the opportunity to transform cutting-edge knowledge and scientific discoveries in business and competitiveness”, as explained by Jorge Portugal, general director of COTEC Portugal.

This stop in the box to the revaluation of scenarios came to reveal how Portuguese companies “are seriously in the race for technology, realizing that the best of the knowledge produced in Portugal has arrive to the companies, can not sit still, under the risk of Portugal to stay behind in this race,” said the same.

In the course of the meeting, which packed out the room from the Cruise Terminal of Port of Leixões, were presented the guidelines of the COHiTEC 2017, which is to serve as a “pipeline” of opportunities for the market, that will in addition to the technologies of information and internet, emerging biotechnology, clean technologies and life sciences.

throughout its 12 years of existence, the activity of the COHiTEC has already involved 780 participants, a broad group of institutions of the scientific and technological system, developing 165 projects and resulting in 33 technology-based companies, where the company invested 38 million euros.