Enterprises

Business Development

The business development service promotes institutional cooperation and business relations. It provides support to projects that boost the links between enterprises and knowledge centers, accelerating the spread, transfer and use of technology by means of a cooperation or a consortium agreement, and projects that aim the intensification of R&TD effort, in particular by enterprises.

• Cooperation and consortium agreements
  
  Partnerships between enterprises and the University of Porto are celebrated to explore complementary skills or common interests in the use of results of R&TD activities. These agreements may embrace industrial research, experimental development activities or training and professional development opportunities for the Alumni of the University of Porto.
  
  
• Projects that aim the intensification of R&TD effort and that can be financed by the National Strategic Reference Framework, which constitutes the framing for the application of the Community’s policy for economic and social cohesion in Portugal for the 2007-2013 period:
  
  
  • R&D projects promoted by Universities, Governmental and private non-profit institutions in priority areas for the Portuguese economic and competitive development, which may include activities designed to disseminate new knowledge into the business fabric.
  • R&TD projects promoted by companies in an individual or collective basis or in consortium with other entities within the National Scientific and Technological System.
  • Projects that deal with qualification, differentiation, diversification and innovation in the production of transactionable goods and services.

Contact us at:

    E-mail: empresas@reit.up.pt
    Phone: 220 408 226 / 220 408 219