The Technology Transfer Office at IST supports entrepreneurship by managing IST's intellectual property and connecting entrepreneurs with students and resources. It fosters over 50 spin-off companies and the ISTART VC Fund which has over €2 million from partners to invest in startups. Entrepreneurship education is integrated into IST degrees and there is a 10-week entrepreneurship program focused on opportunity assessment, business models, and getting feedback from launching test products. The office also supports student entrepreneurship clubs and offers incubation and acceleration programs to help startups launch.

1. Fostering
Entrepreneurship
Luís Caldas de Oliveira

2. TT@IST
Mission
To support the Executive Board in
developing IST links to Society, namely
through the economic exploration of IST’s
knowledge base.
Specifically, the Technology Transfer Office
manages IST’s intellectual property and is
the point of contact for entrepreneurship and
corporate relations.

3. Traditional View of Tech
Transfer

4. Our view of Tech Transfer

5. TT@IST
tt@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
http://tecnico.ulisboa.pt

6. tt.ist.utl.pt

7. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Foster innovation and new businesses

10. What do they have in
common?
“Entrepreneurship is the
process by which
individuals pursue
opportunities without
regard to the resources
they currently control”
Howard Stevenson,1983

11. IST Spin-Off Community
Active relationship with spin-offs
Foster contact between entrepreneurs and
students
Currently includes 50 companies

13. ISTART VC Fund
SAPFRI Program (Compete+PORL)
Partnership with ES Ventures
Investors:
Brisa € 300 000
Caixa Capital € 300 000
ESVentures € 300 000
Novabase Capital € 300 000
Taguspark € 150 000
Compete+PORL € 1 650 000

14. Entrepreneurship Education
Almost all IST degrees include mandatory or
optional courses related with entrepreneurship

15. LLP 10 Week Program
Week 0:
Presentation
Week 1:
Opportunity
Assessment
Week 2:Value
Proposition
Week 3: Customer
Segments
Week 4: Channels
Week 5: Customer
RelationshipsWeek
6: Revenue Models
Week 7: Partners
Week 8: Resources,
Activities and
Costs
Week 9: Final
Lessons Learned
Training
Week 10: Final
Lessons Learned
Presentations

16. LLP Key Points
Evidence-based
entrepreneurship
and not “faith-
based”
“Get out of the
building”
Time
management:
intense and fast
Flipped
classroom: every
class member
must actively
comment the
other teams

21. Student Entrepreneurship Clubs
and Activities

23. Incubation

24. Incubation

25. Acceleration

26. Acceleration
iLLP@Tecnico

27. TT@IST:
Valorisation of IST knowledge
base

28. Obrigado