Porto Design Factory
Porto Design Factory (PDF) is a lab of ideas based on interdisciplinary work, applied research and industrial collaboration.
Startup Porto
Startup Porto aims to foster the emergence and development of a new generation of business by promoting entrepreneurship programs and incubation services.
Biotechnology Lab
The Laboratory of Medical and Industrial Biotechnology (LaBMI) is dedicated to applied research to industrial and medical solutions by means of biotechnological and microbiological methodologies.
Research Labs
PORTIC fosters the emergence of a few strategic areas of research, promoting internal research groups to develop critical mass at the Polytechnic of Porto.
About us
Porto Research, Technology & Innovation Center (PORTIC) is the hub for research, innovation and technological development of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (P.PORTO), to enhance synergies between R&D centers and groups, companies and startups, and the fertile crossing between different intervention areas.
PORTIC brings together research centers and groups from P.PORTO, as well as technological companies, start-ups and R&D institutes, forming a superstructure dedicated to research, technology transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Polytechnic's of Porto new ecosystem strengthens the idea of an environment that stimulates synergies, the fertile crossing between areas of knowledge, adding skills and teams, fostering cooperation and formation of joint projects, in a space of knowledge, science, transfer and reproduction in line with international best practices.
Partners working with us from universities to companies
Projects that we are working now or already finished
Collaborators working daily at PORTIC
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