Mission and Positioning - INOV INESC Inovação

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mission

The mission of INOV is to support the national economy, aiming to increasing its competitiveness through the examples of success and technological development in the areas of the Information Technology, Electronics and Communications, as well as via various activities in the field of technology transfer, expert advising and preparation and advanced training of the technical staff.

positioning

Due to its innovation and technological capacity, INOV occupies the position of an interface structure between knowledge-generation institutions and industrial entities, boosting the interactions and synergies between the various actors, targeting its activity in the strategic areas corresponding to the key competences of the organisation (telecommunications; monitoring, navigation and control; information and electronic technologies). In accordance to this position, INOV, being a private nonprofit technological infrastructure, mostly promotes and commercialises the development abilities and know-how in the technologically advanced areas and the capacity for integration of different technologies in an innovative way.

To perform efficiently and productively these tasks, INOV accompanies its corporate customers in the identification of new projects, providing a full-scale support – at design, project management, development, integration and tests, training and technical assistance/maintenance during investigations – in order to guarantee that all the stages of the innovation process are assured since the definition.

The mission INOV can be resumed to the integration and synergy process based on cooperation between the strategic partners representing the offer (knowledge-generation institutions) and the demand (industrial entities), so that the technology transfer is carried out on the basis of just-in-time philosophy.

Occupying the intermediary position between the University, other centres of knowledge and the Industry, INOV has among its privileged partners universities; polytechnic and R&D institutes (autonomous and business-related); specialised national and international technology providers; institutions defining policy in the area of technology; "think tanks" and innovation associations; entities for innovation promotion and support (including innovation incubators and seed/risk capital providers); national and international companies of different scale (from micro-businesses to large corporations).