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Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship

CITE was created to consolidate INESC TEC’s significant investments and experience in the development of internal processes and tools to manage R&D results, and to organise the resulting knowledge and competences.

At CITE we have a specific expertise in Innovation and Technology Management & Policy and Technology Entrepreneurship. The activities held by our centre promote the development of conceptual frameworks, methodologies and tools used both in advanced consulting and executive training programs for private and public organisations.

At CITE, we have been developing and exploiting a set of national and  international  research  opportunities  in  collaboration with international partners such as the Executive Agency for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) , ISO/TC 279 ‐ Innovation  Management; UT Austin Portugal,  MIT Portugal and Carnegie Mellon Portugal in Engineering and Public Policy.

CITE is the Centre in charge of coordinating the activities of Enterprise Europe Network - Portugal at INESC TEC. Co-funded by COSME and H2020, Enterprise Europe Network is the world's largest support network for SMEs with international ambitions. It provides international business expertise with local knowledge across a range of targeted services - international partnerships, innovation support and  personalised advices on a series of topics from funding & financing to technology transfer or IP management, just to name a few.

Key account management services (KAM) for SME Instrument beneficiaries and Enhancing innovation management capacities services (EIMC) are carried out in addition to the standard Enterprise Europe Network services in support of innovation, technology transfer and research.

Latest News

Before entering the market, an innovative idea must “run a marathon”. The “warm up” takes place at INESC TEC

EIT Jumpstarter supports innovators with early-stage projects. The maturation process goes through INESC TEC with follow-up sessions to transform ideas into “successful ventures”: this year, one of them won an award.

21st January 2025

The network that brings Portuguese companies closer to Europe relies on INESC TEC and benefits from €9M to support sustainable ideas

The Enterprise Europe Network continues to fine-tune cooperation between European SMEs, and INESC TEC will help finding “green” solutions for companies. The Institute also hosted a meeting to create a bridge between Portugal and Germany.  

10th January 2025

INESC TEC seeks to help companies embrace digital transformation at lower costs

Digital transition, innovation, business empowerment, financing, disruptive technologies; and a certainty: 2024 will be a year of opportunities for companies that are willing to take risks. Close to 100 participants gathered at Palácio do Freixo to get to know ATTRACT project, coordinated by INESC TEC. 

08th February 2024

European project explores innovative solutions to address extreme wildfires

The initiative seeks solutions at different stages of maturity: innovative ideas, prototypes, services, products, or community initiatives that aim to address the challenges associated with extreme wildfires - thus contributing to improve the safety of communities and the resilience of forests. The FIRE-RES project, featuring INESC TEC as partner, launched an Open Innovation Challenge and will grant the winners the possibility to develop their ideas and test their solutions in a network of 11 Living Labs, spread over nine countries.

11th October 2023

INESC TEC joins project to place Portugal at the forefront of the insect bioindustry

The InsectERA is a mobilising agenda that features close to 40 national entities. Funded within the PRR – Recovery and Resilience Plan, this agenda aims to develop, industrialise, and commercialise nutritional solutions for people, animals, and plants, while fostering opportunities for the cosmetics and bioplastics industries, as well as for the biomedicines sector. It focuses on the creation of organic waste recovery solutions, contributing to the sustainability of value chains.

23rd March 2023

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Featured Projects

MANTRA

SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING BY ENSURING DIGITAL, GREEN AND SOCIAL SME TRANSFORMATION

2024-2028

SGIDI_AUDIT_NELO

Auditoria Interna NP4457:2021_NELO

2024-2024

TTAccelerator

Twin Transition Accelerator (TTA)

2024-2025

AI4REALNET

AI for REAL-world NETwork operation

2023-2027

BOWI_EyeSense

Eyetracking Technology for Monitor Attention Span

2023-2023

AuditAgro

Auditoria SGIDI Agroinsider

2023-2023

BOWI_ViaNN

Vianet Neural network

2023-2023

BOWI_ARRobot

Improved automation system sales and deployment using augmented reality

2023-2023

BOWI_DmPlan

Innovation for Demand Planning

2023-2023

TURING2

(flexy enhance) EITM digiTal Upskilling and ReskIlliNG programme

2023-2023

TransPathCO2

Transformation pathways – Developing CO2 Roadmaps for Energy-Intensive Industries

2023-2023

EITJumpstarter23

EIT Jumpstarter 2023

2023-2025

EITJumpUkraine23

EIT Jumpstarter express in Ukraine for 2023

2023-2023

ATE

Alliance for Energy Transition

2023-2025

InsectERA

A ERA da indústria dos insetos

2023-2025

Every1

Enable eVeryone's Engagemet in the eneRgY transitiON

2022-2026

AgendaTransform

Agenda para a transformação digital do setor florestal para uma economia resiliente e hipocarbónica

2022-2025

ATTRACT_DIH

Digital Innovation Hub for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing

2022-2025

NEXUS

Innovation Pact - Digital and Green Transition

2022-2025

DIGITALbuilt

Digital Innovation Hub Construction

2022-2025

SoTecInFactory

Social And Technological Innovation Factory For Low-Carbon And Circular Industrial Value Chains

2022-2025

DivaX

Services for company Europeanisation

2022-2022

EEN2022

European Enterprise Network 2022-25

2022-2025

TECH2MARKET

Technology to Market for Competitive Manufacturing in Europe

2022-2023

TURING

(flexy enhance) EITM digiTal Upskilling and ReskIlliNG programme

2022-2022

GreenMA

Green Manufacturing Accelerator

2022-2022

VR2Care

3D community aware virtual spaces as smart living environments for rehabilitation and physical care

2022-2024

Demo4Green

Green Manufacturing: Demonstra??ng technologies to fight Climate Change

2022-2022

FIRE_RES

Innovative Technologies and Socio-Ecological-Economic Solutions for FIRE RESilient Territories in Europe

2021-2025

HfPT

Health from Portugal

2021-2025

SIACEDV_A_OAZEMEIS

Caraterização AS-IS e desenho de roadmap estratégico no âmbito dos Sistemas Avançados de Produção - AECOA

2021-2023

SIACEDV_A_FEIRA

Caraterização AS-IS e desenho de roadmap estratégico no âmbito dos Sistemas Avançados de Produção - AEF

2021-2023

SGIDI_agro

Implementação de um SGIDI segundo a NP 4457: 2007

2021-2022

audSGIDI

Auditoria interna ao SFIDI da NELO

2021-2021

EITJUMPSTART2021

EIT-JUMPSART Local Trainning - Fase II - 2021

2021-2022

CLAMTEX

Digital Transformation Training for Clusters

2021-2021

EurA

Case-Study report for EurA AG

2021-2021

IgniPartinsigna

Ignition Partner_ projeto insign

2021-2021

SCORPION

Cost effective robots for smart precision spraying

2021-2023

MirrorLabs2

Creating similar learning environment for students all over Europe for human-robot coproduction

2021-2021

SMARTHEALTH4ALL

Smart medical technologies for better health and care

2020-2023

EIT Jumpstarter

EIT JUMPSARTER Local Trainning - Fase II

2020-2020

LL2fresh

LONG LIFE TO SAFE FRESH - What to start and accelerate?

2020-2020

PLIS1asis

CONSULTORIA PARA O LEVANTAMENTO DA SITUAÇÃO ATUAL DO SISTEMA DE GESTÃO INTEGRADA DE FOGOS RURAIS (SGIFR)

2020-2020

EENPortugal

EEN-Portugal 2020-2021

2020-2021

EENINNOVATION

EEN-INNOVATION_JOURNEY_2020-2021

2020-2021

SmartEcotec

Viabilidade de Implementação de Sistema de Inteligência Artificial para o Diagnóstico, Previsão e Controlo Multivariado de Unidades de Tratamento de Lixiviados

2019-2020

MonitorizacaoCIR2019

Monitorização da Campanha de Incêndios Rurais de 2019

2019-2020

INCLUDING

Innovative Cluster for Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies

2019-2024

IMSGIDI

Proposta de Prestação de Serviços Consultoria para o Desenho e implementação de melhorias nos Processo de Gestão de IDI

2019-2022

EEN2019

EEN-PORTUGAL

2019-2019

EEN-Innovate

EEN-Innovate Plus PT

2019-2019

OpenInnoTrain

Research Translation and Applied Knowledge Exchange in Practice through University-Industry-Cooperation

2019-2024

NMP-REG

Aquisição de serviços para desenvolvimento de uma agenda regional para a promoção da adoção das nanotecnologias, materiais avançados e processos avançados de produção pela indústria transformadora da região norte

2018-2019

DigEcoBus

Competition and Business Model Innovation in the Digital Age

2018-2022

DIVA

Boosting innovative DIgitech Value chains for Agrofood, forestry and environment

2018-2021

TouriSMEShare

Opportunities for entrepreneurs in the sharing economy

2017-2020

PROTOATLANTIC

Development and validation of a program for the prototyping and exploitation of innovative ideas

2017-2023

ScaleUp-PORTUGAL

ScaleUp-PORTUGAL

2017-2018

EEN2017/2018

EEN2017/2018

2017-2018

EEN-InnovatePT

EEN-Innovate PT

2017-2018

SCREEN-DR

Image Analysis and Machine Learning Platform for Innovation in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

2016-2020

BIP

BIP - Business Ignition Programme

2016-2018

CORAL-SENSORS

CORAL – Sustainable Ocean Exploitation: Tools and Sensors

2016-2018

IN&OUT

Porto International Acceleration Programme IN & OUT - Web & Mobile

2015-2017

SafeCloud

Secure and Resilient Cloud Architecture

2015-2018

NanoStima-RL2

NanoSTIMA - Health data collection and visualization

2015-2019

FOUREYES

TEC4Growth - RL FourEyes - Intelligence, Interaction, Immersion and Innovation for media industries

2015-2019

iMAN

iMAN - Intelligence for advanced Manufacturing systems

2015-2019

NanoStima-RL1

NanoSTIMA - Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing Technologies

2015-2019

NanoStima-RL3

NanoSTIMA - Health data infrastructure

2015-2019

NanoStima-RL4

NanoSTIMA - Health Data Analysis & Decision

2015-2019

SMILES

SMILES - Smart, Mobile, Intelligent and Large scale Sensing and analytics

2015-2019

EEN

EEN

2015-2016

KAM

EEN-Innovation PT

2015-2016

VR2Market

VR2Market: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions

2014-2019

STAMAR

Technology portfolio for the Sea

2014-2015

PASS

Passport for Entrepreneurship

2014-2015

AESI

Defining a sustainable internationalisation strategy

2013-2014

INOV.ATACAMA

Workshop on institutional, university and regional innovation management models

2012-2012

LINPRA

Training services for the project "Integration of R&D Networks for the future manufacturing"

2012-2012

CAL4INO

Creative Activities in Learning for Innovation

2012-2014

SPIN-UP

Entrepreneurship Training and Coaching for University Spin-Offs

2011-2013

TecEmpreende

Science and Technology Parks and Technology-based Incubators

2010-2013

PINC

Pole of Creative Industries of University of Porto's Science and Technology Park

2010-2013

FIRE-ENGINE

Flexible Design of Forest Fire Management Systems

2010-2014

SIAC-Calcado-Inov

Study on innovation in the footwear sector

2010-2011

GAPI2.0

Knowledge Valorization Offices promoting Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Industrial Property

2010-2011

NODES

Network engineering systems in uncertainty contexts

2010-2013

Fadis

Methodology and tool for decision-making on internationalization

2009-2011

Jo-Empreende

Development and promotion of programmes on entrepreneurship for specific target-audiences

2009-2011

EINautilus

Classroom Management Software

2008-2011

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Publications

CITE Publications

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2025

Non-formal education as a response to social problems in developing countries

Authors
Almeida, F; Morais, J;

Publication
E-LEARNING AND DIGITAL MEDIA

Abstract
Non-formal education seeks to address the limitations of formal education that do not reach all communities and do not provide all new competencies and capabilities that are essential for the integrated development of communities. The role of non-formal education becomes even more relevant in the context of developing countries where significant asymmetries in access to education emerge. This study adopts the Solutions Story Tracker provided by the Solutions Journalism Network to identify and explore solutions based on journalism stories in the non-formal education field. A total of 256 stories are identified and categorized into 14 dimensions. The findings reveal that practical, participatory, and volunteering dimensions are the three most common dimensions in these non-formal education initiatives. Furthermore, two emerging dimensions related to empowerment and sustainability are identified, allowing us to extend the theoretical knowledge in the non-formal education field. These conclusions are relevant for establishing public policies that can involve greater participation by local communities in non-formal education and for addressing sustainability challenges through bottom-up initiatives.

2025

Comparative analysis of EU-based cybersecurity skills frameworks

Authors
Almeida, F;

Publication
Computers & Security

Abstract

2025

Hybrid multilayer framework for innovation management

Authors
Schmitt, R; Pereira, EB; Almeida, F;

Publication
Evolving Strategies for Organizational Management and Performance Evaluation

Abstract
This chapter aims to analyze and map the behaviors and strategies employed by organizations recognized for their innovation, with the goal of developing a comprehensive innovation management framework. This framework is designed to merge innovation practices with elements of traditional management, creating a hybrid model to support companies, universities, and research institutes in fostering innovation. Rooted in an understanding of human evolution, the framework will reflect changes in needs, skills, and behaviors over time, enabling institutions to adapt their innovation strategies to align with societal and individual development. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it will integrate concepts from innovation, organizational management, and the human sciences to establish a structure that supports sustainable innovation while addressing contemporary challenges. © 2025, IGI Global Scientific Publishing.

2025

Knowledge Sharing and Team Dynamics in the Context of an Incubation Program

Authors
Kurteshi, R; Almeida, F;

Publication
Knowledge Sharing and Fostering Collaborative Business Culture

Abstract
Knowledge sharing and team dynamics are essential elements of entrepreneurial success, especially in teams that operate in innovative environments. This chapter explores how participation in an incubation program influences the formation and development of entrepreneurial team identity. It aims to understand the dynamics involved in creating entrepreneurial teams, the practices of knowledge sharing, and the role digital technologies play in supporting and sustaining these processes. The study focuses on teams that completed the CEU iLab Incubation Program, with data gathered through in-depth semi-structured interviews from twenty-five entrepreneurs across various startups. Five cases, involving entire entrepreneurial teams, were central to this research. The findings offer valuable insights for enhancing incubation programs, promoting entrepreneurial identity formation, and improving the success of new ventures. These insights are beneficial for both scholars and practitioners in the entrepreneurship field.

2025

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Assessment: The Path to a Tool

Authors
Guimarães, CM; Amorim, V; Almeida, F;

Publication
Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics - Human-Centred Technology Management for a Sustainable Future

Abstract

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13Researchers

2016

5Papers in indexed journals

2020

3R&D Employees

2020