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BIP

Business Ignition Programme

Principal Investigator
Administrative Services
Research and Innovation Strategy and Funding

Susana Moreira is PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Porto in 2005. She coordinates the Science and Innovation Office at CIIMAR. She has more than ten years of experience linked to marine related research and innovation management under regional, national and European funding schemes. She has significant working experience in the development and implementation of activities related with monitoring, dissemination and exploitation of R&D results and public policy support. She also works as liaison officer with different actors (e.g. public authorities, funding agencies, academia and research centres, industry, maritime clusters) and represents CIIMAR in several national and European forums. Lecturer of the course of Integrated Ocean Management of the Marine Sciences – Marine Resources MSc Degree, at Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Portugal. She has 20 publications in international peer-reviewed journals

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The BIP – Business Ignition Programme is a hands-on technology acceleration programme designed to support the validation of business models for technologies developed in academia.

The programme has three main objectives:

  • Identify market opportunities for potential products/services resulting from research;
  • Provide the participants with the necessary skills for the valorisation and commercialisation of technologies;
  • Support the development of valorisation plans, including the creation of new technology-based companies.

 

BIP participants will have access to:

  • Support and follow-up by one element, with business skills, who will apply their skills, experience and networking to the development of the project, as a member of the team.
  • Immersive sessions in technology commercialisation according to the Business Model Canvas and Customer Development methodologies.
  • In-class sessions and seminars where experienced tutors will share their experiences and strategies for delineating and validating business models.
  • Meetings with mentors who will follow the evolution of teams and facilitate the validation of business models.

 

During the programme, Customer Development process, developed by Steve Blank, and the Business Model Canvas methodology, created by Alexander Osterwalder, will be applied to help the teams approach the market and find product/market fit. Sonae will be BIP’s business partner providing mentorship to ideas and projects with application in the retail sector.

Leader Institution
CIIMAR-UP
Program
NORTE2020
Funding
Other projects