After almost 20 years of dedication to the promotion of entrepreneurship, U.Porto Innovation has shown to be crucial to the valorisation of knowledge at the University.
- More than 450 invention announcements
- More than 1,000 patent requests submitted
- More than 300 patents registered (national and international)
- More than 20 technology transfer agreements with businesses
- More than 1,800 inventors supported
- More than 90 spin-offs supported
- More than €900 thousand in accumulated investment through the supported projects
Since 2007, the activities carried out by the Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto (UPTEC) resulted in:
- More than 630 business projects supported
- More than 6,000 jobs created
- More than 200 businesses (national and international) established
- 86 graduated businesses
- 35 innovation centres
- 21 anchor projects
- 19 business ideas
- More than 1,800 jobs
More than €25 million raised in investments for hundreds of start-ups
