Founded in 1973, NOVA University Lisbon encompasses nine schools that offer a wide variety of degrees in all areas of knowledge and constitute an incontestable cultural, artistic, academic, and technological resource. NOVA has a strong tradition of work in areas of innovation, with corresponding outcomes in the economy, services, and in extracurricular training, establishing important protocols with its peers, both nationally and internationally.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship are embedded in NOVA’s culture, being widely promoted within the University’s ecosystem as a way of fostering knowledge transfer and transforming research results into social and economic value, focuses particularly on promoting a knowledge-based and high-impact value creation activity, through collaborations with industry and society.

The NOVA Impact office contributes to the University’s societal benefit by working with academics, researchers and students to apply and maximize the impact of their expertise and research, to foster knowledge transfer and transform innovative results in social and economic value.

We support and develop initiatives that add social or economic value, based on the knowledge produced at NOVA, promoting a knowledge-based and high-impact value creation activity through collaborations with society and industry. We set up new programs to encourage entrepreneurship and new cross-cutting initiatives to strengthen collaboration with businesses.

We help NOVA innovators and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas for the benefit of society, the economy, themselves, and the University.

Typical activities and support include the IP protection, development and commercialization of ideas/technology, entrepreneurship training, new company or social enterprise creation, and liaising with industry or other organizations to partner up towards impact-driven projects and initiatives.

We are currently seeking best-in-class collaboration partners for our publications listed in the tab Opportunities. We want to invite you to cooperate with us, so please repond to any of the opportunities by submitting one or more proposals. Our team will directly evaluate them and get back to you with a response. Please provide as much detailed non-confidential information as possible to facilitate the engagement process.