Innovation Ecosystem

 

“The University of Minho occupies a core place, counting on the largest number of links with interface institutions and technology centres.”

Diagnosis of the Research and Innovation National System, Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), May, 2013

Innovation and knowledge transfer and valorisation, in the form of partnerships with companies, associations of municipalities and governmental agencies, of industrial property licensing, in the promotion of an entrepreneurship culture and spin-offs, are distinctive marks of the University of Minho.