Description
UPTEC - Science and Technology Park of the U.Porto is a pioneering structure in the framework of Higher Education in Portugal, which concentrates a wide range of startups and private R&D centers around the University of Porto.
UPTEC fosters the creation and developemnet of business projects in the arts, sciences and technologies, through sharing knowledge between the University and the market. UPTEC is a meeting point between different disciplines, contexts and specialists. It is a space to risk, provoke, share, build and learn.
Since its creation in 2007, UPTEC has supported the development of over 600 business projects that are distinguished by their high degree of innovation, technological, scientific and creative intensity, specialized knowledge and internationalization potential, and over 2800 highly qualified jobs have been created.
UPTEC hosts companies in three centers - UPTEC Asprela, UPTEC Baixa and UPTEC Mar - following a cluster strategy and resource sharing between startups, innovation centers and anchor projects. This guarantees projects the specific support they need, inserting them in a broad and transversal network of national and international partners.