Carlos Cerqueira

Coimbra Area, Portugal, Centro Portugal

Innovation Director at IPN

Education

I am the Innovation Director at Instituto Pedro Nunes, the technology transfer institution from Coimbra University. I am also the director of the Portuguese Space Agency Incubator (ESA BIC Portugal), founded in 2014, which gathers IPN, Fundação of Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and the European Space Agency (ESA) and supports startups that use space technologies to non-space markets (http://space.ipn.pt/). In the last five years, I also coordinated INEO Start, IPN’s startup acceleration program launched in 2010 that has supported more than 80 startups and up to 1000 participants, amongst entrepreneurs and mentors (http://start.ineo.pt/). I am also a lecture at Coimbra University in innov...