Roadmap for Innovation – More and Better Jobs

 

Strengthening Portugal's innovation strategy requires paying special attention to people, knowledge, and knowledge transfer, contributing to competitiveness based on knowledge and innovation, which is central to creating value and accelerating the development of new products and services.

The Innovation Roadmap aims to strengthen confidence in public and private actors and disseminate relevant cases of innovation with demonstration potential.

 

Focusing on some examples of collaborative, open research aimed at responding to major national and global challenges, such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and healthcare, the Roadmap also includes a set of illustrative cases of Research and Innovation in sectors of activity and regions where the focus on knowledge and innovation has made it possible to support the development of innovation networks and new activities, new equipment, methods, and technologies in different sectors—agriculture and food (fruit, vegetables, vineyards, among others), forestry, the sea, textiles, and even in public administration and society in general.

 

The mobilization of different agents in Research and Innovation dynamics will be crucial for the emergence of collaborative agendas, the strengthening of investment in R&D, and more skilled employment in a new phase of Portugal's development.

 

 

The Innovation Roadmap launch session will include a moment for the signing of international partnership agreements, in which existing collaborations will be renewed and new ones established. A decade after the creation of international partnerships between Portugal and Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, it is now clear that the commitment to training human resources to the highest international standards has resulted in the development of new platforms for research and economic growth, together with advanced, multidisciplinary training programs that, incorporating components of innovation and entrepreneurship, have made these partnerships a model of international collaboration.

 

For the period 2018-2030, the GoPortugal – Global Science and Technology Partnerships Portugal initiative aims to stimulate scientific and business development, promote Portugal's standing in the world through the scientific and economic enhancement of an innovative agenda on "Atlantic Interactions," attract funding, and mobilize various national and international actors with an innovative approach in various areas of knowledge. This new phase will lead to the creation of skilled jobs, attracting human resources of recognized international merit to Portugal.

 

 

The itinerary is structured around several sessions, beginning on February 15, 2018, and including visits, events, and meetings with various types of key public and private actors, who should be associated with the overall design of the sessions as a whole:

1. Companies with significant R&D activity;

2. New technology-based companies, particularly in incubation centers;

3. Interface Centers and new Collaborative Laboratories (CoLABs);

4. R&D centers, particularly at universities and polytechnics;

5. Public administration institutions;

6. Centers for the dissemination of scientific culture, namely Centros Ciência Viva (Science Alive Centers).

 

PROGRAM:

February 15

 

February 16

Specialized Thematic Sessions:

 

EVENT 1

The future of the European Research and Innovation Framework Program for Europe (RISE – European Commission)

 

EVENT 2

 

EVENT 3

 

EVENT 4

 

EVENT 5

 

EVENT 6

 

EVENT 7

 

EVENT 8

 

February 16