Bilateral Meetings
- 10:00 h - 13:00 h
- 14:00 h - 16:00h
Agência Nacional de Inovação, S.A. (ANI), the Portuguese National Innnovation Agency, is a Government Agency owned in equal shares by the Ministry of the Economy (via IAPMEI, the Portuguese Agency for Competitiveness, IP), and by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, (via the FCT – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, IP).
ANI aims to promote technology based innovation; to foster market-oriented R&D co-operation between Portuguese and foreign research centres and enterprises and to promote the economic valorisation of R&D results.
ANI acts as an interface between Industry and academia / technological institutions. As such, it is strongly involved in co-operation with local authorities, with industrial clusters, science parks, incubators and technological centres, having a role in regional innovation initiatives, in company benchmarking and best practice programmes.
It is a member of the Portuguese Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) consortium.
The Enterprise Europe Network is an international network of close to 600 partners from over 60 countries with 3000 local experts ready to help companies and innovators to find the right partners and support businesses to growth and internationalize. ANI is partner of the Network since its creation in 2008 and is especially suited to support technology-based partnerships and the exploitation of results from R&D and innovation projects.
SUPPORT TO PORTUGUESE SMES TO FIND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND EU PROJECTS
Have you developed an innovative product or technology and want to find the right partner to go international?
Do you need to find partners for a H2020 project?
Are you looking for a partner abroad to expand your business?
ANI may help you to establish the right contact.
- Commercial cooperation
- Other