About us

UC Business is the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of the University of Coimbra (Portugal).

UC Business

Through the transfer of a wide range of knowledge to the benefit of Society, the mission of UC Business is to transform UC into an essential partner to the business sector, carrying out joint projects with different business structures (start-ups, spin-offs, SMEs, large companies and associations), within the multiple areas of knowledge of the University of Coimbra.

UC Business organizes its action in three pillars:

  • Valuing the different assets of the University of Coimbra, materials and immaterials, such as the knowledge of researchers, students and technologies.
  • Commitment to innovation in the medium and long term, strategically enhancing and enhancing the University of Coimbra.
  • Development of solid and sustainable partnerships, which reinforce the operation capacity and presence in strategic sectors at national and international level.

Services

Innovation Management

UC Technologies Portfolio

Intellectual Property

Provision of Specialized Services

Technology and Service Platforms

Entrepreneurship Consultancy

Competencies

The Technology Transfer Division (UC Business) is part of the Research Promotion and Management Service of the University of Coimbra, and is responsible for:

  • Stimulating the development of UC projects in the fields of innovation and knowledge transfer;
  • Ensuring the management of intellectual property;
  • Managing partnerships in the field of innovation and supporting the creation of university spin-offs;
  • Identifying and evaluating products resulting from research and development with innovation and/or commercialization potential, and identifying suitable partners for this purpose;
  • Supporting and monitoring ongoing partnerships in the field of innovation and knowledge transfer;
  • Supporting the participation of the UC in international innovation and knowledge transfer networks;
  • Promoting training in innovation;
  • Stimulating the procurement of specialized services;
  • Supporting and monitoring the UC’s technological and service platforms;
  • Executing other activities as assigned by the Service Management.

UC Business thus establishes the University-Industry synergy by intervening and mediating in accordance with the Entity Cycle, which needs a certain technology in a certain space-time, and with the Researcher Cycle, willing to work towards the transfer of knowledge to satisfy those needs.

Added to this knowledge are the practices and soft skills, immaterial, immeasurable and intangible assets of the managers of the various UC Business work cores, always willing to open and immediate dialogue.


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Examples

Surveillance and Technological Enhancement

Did you know that UC Business guarantees training in Active Technological Surveillance, which enables all knowledge agents to identify methodologies or project results that could be economically valued? We also guarantee the valorization of duly protected technologies developed at UC with external national and international entities.

Forming Consortia

Did you know that UC researchers can collaborate with companies or organizations by creating a consortium, with different partners, to develop a new product / service or to solve a specific challenge for an industry / society?

External Partnerships

Did you know that your company can collaborate with the University of Coimbra and its researchers by providing specialized services?

Brochure

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“The UC and the Transfer of Knowledge and Technology in Historical Context”

The booklet factually describes the formalization of the first Technology Transfer Office (TTO) in Higher Education, exploring the umbilical link between UC and Intellectual Property through the Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN). By arranging the sources and preserving the facts, the impact of the initiatives created and organized by the UC’s TTO, over the last 20 years, is described. In a second plan, it provides a historical analysis of TTOs, in Portugal, supported by the organic evolution in the UC and examples of success, framing scientifically the Special Project UC Business.