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INESC TEC Jazz Band celebrated, on 6 February, five years of existence. CONGRATULATIONS!

Corporate

INESC TEC, in the words of our partners – Statement by Silos de Leixões, by the voice of Nuno Fernandes.

Limelight

"INESC TEC gave me time, room and the possibility to grow in a sustainable manner as a professional.", Hugo Choupina (C-BER)

Free Nonsense

"My warmest congratulations to those who came up with the tickets' idea and to everyone who are a part of it!", Patrícia Gonçalves (LIAAD)

Gallery of the Uncommon

Miguel starts to listen the bubble water and soon after he smells the wet ground. Then he ear cries for help...

Where are you now?

Every month INESC TEC sends highly qualified individuals into the market...

Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls

In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC TEC offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.

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More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

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Thesis developed by INESC TEC’s researcher selected by INPI

Thesis developed by INESC TEC’s researcher selected by INPI

The thesis entitled “An analysis of Portuguese public policies for university patenting” written by Daniel Vasconcelos, collaborator of the Technology Licensing Office (SAL) and researcher of INESC TEC’s Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE), was accepted for publication on the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) website. It is the first thesis in this area that is produced in INESC TEC and that is published on this platform, considering that other thesis and similar papers are from law or business schools.

This study under the scope of the Master in Economics and Managing Innovation of the Faculty of Economics of University of Porto (FEP) was supervised by Alípio Torre (CMU), João Cortez (i3S) and Catarina Maia (INESC TEC). The aim of this investigation was to asset whether public politics for innovation implemented in Portugal since 2001 had an impact on the strategy followed by Universities and Polytechnic Institutes for the patent protection of their technologies.

The results obtained suggest that GAPI policy (2001-2007) had more impact on national patent application and subsequent grant of it. This was the first study showing that the patent portfolio of Portuguese higher education institutions is not properly internationalized. It also showed that only 13% of patents granted are commercialized. A patent is a right that is given to the exclusive commercial exploitation of an invention, its non-commercial exploitation should be viewed as a problem. The study presents data that positively correlate higher levels of patent commercialization (41% vs 9%) when these are used on commercialization of technology training programmes (e.g. COHiTEC).

To conclude, this study suggests that financing strategy for the internationalization of patents adopted in Portugal, in combination with an intellectual property policy, which exempted public entities from taxes, has not promoted an effective commercialization of technology.

 
The researcher mentioned in this news piece is associated with INESC TEC.