Innovation Roadmap - More and Better Jobs

 

Strengthening an innovation strategy for Portugal requires paying special attention to people, knowledge and its 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 aim of the Innovation Roadmap is to strengthen confidence in public and private agents and to publicize 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 or healthcare, the Roadmap also includes a number of illustrative cases of Research and Innovation in sectors of activity and regions where the commitment to 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, or even 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 reinforcement of investment in R&D and more qualified employment in a new phase of Portugal's development.

 

 

The launch session of the Innovation Roadmap will include a moment for the signing of international partnership protocols, in which existing collaborations will be renewed and new ones established. A decade after the creation of the 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 qualifying human resources at the best international level has resulted in the development of new platforms for research and economic growth, together with advanced, multidisciplinary training programs which, incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship components, have made these partnerships a model for international collaboration.

 

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

 

 

The Roadmap is structured around several sessions, starting on February 15, 2018, and including visits, events and meetings with various types of key public and private players, which should be linked to the overall design of the sessions:

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 Ciência Viva Centers.

 

PROGRAM:

February 15th

 

February 16th

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 16th