<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127</id><updated>2011-07-07T21:03:24.347+01:00</updated><title type='text'>MIETE-BLOG</title><subtitle type='html'>TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP&lt;BR&gt;

Welcome to the BLOG of the Master Programme in Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MIETE) at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). Through this BLOG we want to let you have a further insight into our activities in innovation and entrepreneurship.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-2453916126844744267</id><published>2007-03-24T20:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-24T20:25:18.904Z</updated><title type='text'>Our New BLOG...</title><content type='html'>Kindly find our new BLOG at the following address &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://paginas.fe.up.pt/miete/blog/"&gt;www.fe.up.pt/miete/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-2453916126844744267?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2453916126844744267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=2453916126844744267' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/2453916126844744267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/2453916126844744267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/our-new-blog.html' title='Our New BLOG...'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-2433162270570134253</id><published>2007-03-14T10:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-03-24T00:02:22.655Z</updated><title type='text'>It's real, you can do it! &amp; Competitiveness in the North Region of Portugal</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's real, you can do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;MIETE 2nd Cycle&lt;/span&gt; has a clear value proposition to it's students: An &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Integrated trainning in the innovation process and in technology, promoting the creation of new technology-based business. Moreover, we take our students go through a rigorous hands-on training that covers the entire venture creation process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Leaving the course with your own business is real!&lt;/span&gt; Two businesses have already been launched with the business plan prepared during MIETE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;February 2007&lt;/span&gt;: Tomorrow Options Microelectronics S.A. (no website)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;March 2006&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;a href="http://www.ideavity.com/"&gt; IDEAVITY&lt;/a&gt; , 1st entreprise is launched by former MIETE students. You can actually register and use their Social Networking Platform for teenagers: &lt;a href="http://www.mingle.pt/"&gt;www.mingle.pt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope to make an announcement of MIETE 2nd Cycle soon. We are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;still waiting for its approval by DGES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; Please let us know if you have any questions!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!-- Skype 'Call me!' button http://www.skype.com/go/skypebuttons --&gt;  &lt;a href="skype:miete.up?call"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ;" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/call_blue_white_124x52.png" alt="Call me!" height="52" width="124" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SKYPE: miete.up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can download the MIETE 2nd Cycle brochure here: &lt;a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/miete/2ndCycle/MIETE.2ndCycle.pdf"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/miete/2ndCycle/MIETE.2oCiclo.pdf"&gt;Português&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Competitiveness in the North Region of Portugal, Porto, 15 March&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have today a contribution from Mr. Ricardo Jorge da Fonseca Luz, with a Degree in Economics from Porto University (1991) and a MSc in Design for Sustainability, Cranfield University, UK (2005). He has large and diverse experiences as a Strategy and Management Consultant and Entrepreneur. He is founder and partner of GESTLUZ - Consultores de Gestão, Lda., of Designarte – Design e Comunicação, Lda., and of a spin-off in the area of Computer Dynamics Fluids (FluidInova – Engenharia de Fluidos, S.A.). He is also President of a Business Angels Network - Invicta Angels (www.invictaangels.pt) and Vice-President of Alumni Association of Faculty of Economics of Porto University (www.fep.up.pt/aaafep).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; MIETE-BLOG&lt;/span&gt;: Dr. Ricardo Luz, thank you so much for your availability to talk with us. Could you give us a brief presentation of Invicta Angels?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Ricardo Luz&lt;/span&gt;: The Invicta Angels – Porto Business Angels Association is a group of persons available to invest not only money but also their experience and their business skills, time and contact networks in Entrepreneurial Projects in Porto’s Region. Business Angels are private investors, also called informal investors, who invest in small and medium sized businesses with a high potential of growth. To Invicta Angels the relationship with the most representative Entities of Porto’s Region is fundamental, for the development of her activity, namely those who promote a better linkage between I&amp;DT Centres, incubators and the market, through the associates contacts networks. Periodically, the Invicta Angels promotes a “Dinner – Projects Presentation”, where entrepreneurs have 5 minutes to present their ideas/projects, selected previously by the associates/investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Further information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Federação Nacional de Associações de Business Angels promotes its National Week of Business Angels from the 12th to the 16th of March in various places in Portugal! A great opportunity for Entrepreneurs to meet Investors directly. More information can be found at www.fnaba.org.&lt;br /&gt;Included in this initiative, the Invicta Angels promotes, on the 15th of March (Thursday) from 15h30m to 19h30, the event “Competitiveness in North Region: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Financing”, in the Salão Nobre of University of Porto.&lt;br /&gt;The "National Week of Business Angels" precedes the EBAN - European Business Angel Network Congress that will take place on April 16 and 17 in Estoril Congress Center, on the outskirts of Lisbon, and will receive institutional sponsorship from IAPMEI and the City Hall of Cascais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sigarra.up.pt/up/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=3518"&gt;Competitividade da Região Norte: Inovação, Empreendedorismo e Financiamento&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 de Março | Salão Nobre da Reitoria&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://paginas.fe.up.pt/miete2007/skype:miete.up?call"&gt;&lt;http: pt=""&gt;&lt;http: pt=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-2433162270570134253?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/2433162270570134253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/2433162270570134253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-real-you-can-do-it-competitiveness.html' title='It&apos;s real, you can do it! &amp; Competitiveness in the North Region of Portugal'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-117035210189241252</id><published>2007-02-01T17:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-02-02T16:45:37.630Z</updated><title type='text'>One Step Ahead! Towards the Future...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Courses that take their participants through the entire venture creation process are rare in Europe and MIETE is one of the very few exceptions to the rule&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This evaluation results from a recent survey (prepared in January 2007 for &lt;a href="http://www.dges.mctes.pt/DGES"&gt;DGES&lt;/a&gt;) and clearly positions MIETE as an innovative course in the European space. MIETE takes its participants through the entire venture creation process, by combining real training in the innovation process and technology commercialization with the interaction of its students with researchers from different fields at the University of Porto (UP).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This very practical “hands-on” approach to training with real commercialization problems enables students to better grasp the actual innovation process and to go through the real experience of technology commercialisation. The real objective is to assemble a sound and solid business plan ready to be analyzed by investors by the end of the course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This distinctive feature was further reinforced in the proposal of the MIETE 2nd Cycle (Bolonha). You can download the course brochure here:&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fe.up.pt/miete/2ndCycle/MIETE.2ndCycle.pdf"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fe.up.pt/miete/2ndCycle/MIETE.2oCiclo.pdf"&gt;Português&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Further reasons why you should join us, have fun, and build your own business:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;    MIETE receives students from a broad educational background and provides each of them with the flexibility to adjust the technical training to their needs. Students are allowed to select optional technical courses up to 24 ETCS from all 2nd Cycles available at the University of Porto. This allows students from very different backgrounds to mingle in MIETE’s multidisciplinary commercialisation teams.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;We care about your Competitive Advantage!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Please let us know if you feel like you need further clarification.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;You can reach us at: miete@fe.up.pt / +351 93 293 45 29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-117035210189241252?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/117035210189241252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=117035210189241252' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/117035210189241252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/117035210189241252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2007/02/one-step-ahead-towards-future.html' title='One Step Ahead! Towards the Future...'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-116656873137256746</id><published>2006-12-19T22:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-12-19T23:13:42.160Z</updated><title type='text'>MIETE Cultural Project</title><content type='html'>With our best wishes for this Holiday Season and all the best for the New Year, we are now back with our regular Postings at MIETE-BLOG with the "MIETE Cultural Project".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;MIETE Cultural Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Training and New Business Construction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIETE promotes and innovative combination of training in Technology, Creativity and Management, promoting, whenever appropriate, the valorisation of technologies through the construction of commercialisation strategies and their implementation through licensing or through the creation of new businesses.&lt;br /&gt;In this context, where innovation is approached as a conscious and consistent effort for identifying new opportunities, MIETE aims at bridging the gap between the technology discovery – conducted at Faculties, Research Institutes, Research Units and Enterprises – and the commercialisation of innovative technology-based products and services, both through the constructions of new businesses or through the transfer of technology to existing companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;MIETE as Pivot in the Technology Transfer Process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The model with which MIETE started in Sep/04 relied heavily on the interaction of MIETE teams and R&amp;D groups at the University of Porto. In Sep/06 the new MIETE students faced an increment in training in the usage of creative processes and techniques to support the early ideation phases. In parallel, the course started the establishment of bridges to the enterprises. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1538/1634/1600/400519/CulturalProject.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1538/1634/400/913262/CulturalProject.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This connection is crucial for the role that MIETE aims at playing in the Portuguese society. The picture illustrates the current MIETE operations model where MIETE multidisciplinary teams play an interface role in Training, Technology Transfer, R&amp;amp;D and established enterprises.&lt;br /&gt;By promoting this close relationship with R&amp;amp;D groups and Enterprises, MIETE wishes to explicitly position itself as a Pivot in the innovation process, technology transfer and new venture creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/si/FUNCIONARIOS_GERAL.formview?p_codigo=210653"&gt;João José Pinto Ferreira&lt;/a&gt;, Director do MIETE&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-116656873137256746?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/116656873137256746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=116656873137256746' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/116656873137256746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/116656873137256746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/12/miete-cultural-project.html' title='MIETE Cultural Project'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-115442978431787448</id><published>2006-08-01T11:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T15:52:41.710Z</updated><title type='text'>Think big! Be open minded! Get excited with your own business!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/catarina%20UESP.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/catarina%20UESP.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Catarina Monteiro is an Environment Engineer graduated at the School of Biotechnology of Porto (UCP). Catarina Joined MIETE in September 2004.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:  &lt;/span&gt;It’s late July and we all dream about holidays, seaside and a relaxing environment. Catarina thank you so much for you time and for this brief interview. Please let us know a little bit about your background, about what lead you to Environment Engineering and finally to Innovation and Entrepreneurship?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CM:&lt;/span&gt; I was always a fan of the National Geographic; I think it was the greatest influence in the choice of my course. I was particularity interested in the sustainable development and how it could change our way to see the world so I decided to become an environment engineer. After I graduated I was full of ideas and wanted to start a business in this area. I realized that having ideas was not enough so I decided to enter in the MIETE, to learn how to transform ideas into successful businesses. I have to admit that MIETE changed the course of my professional life. Now I work in innovation and technology transfer and I plan to start my own business in a totally different area, this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Along the 1st edition of MIETE you and your team took one technology from a graduation project at FEUP and turned it into a product to world market. It was a long way to the final business plan that keeps being updated. Could you describe briefly your feelings along the way, the emotional up’s and down’s along the process of bringing a technology to the world market (it’s not there yet, we know, but it’s on its way!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CM: &lt;/span&gt;It was definitively a process with ups and downs! In the beginning you are constantly going back and forth, screening the different potential products and markets that your technology can reach. There is always some information missing or, after weeks of work, you need to change everything because you discover that there is a better market. On the other hand you are working with people that you just met and even when the team is fully commited and the business plan is almost done there is always new information and changes that have to be done. But in the end it is really exciting to see the plan of your own business, with your ideas and the strategies that you believe is going to be a success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Any lessons learned? Would you like to share some of your thoughts with the new MIETE student starting in September?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CM:&lt;/span&gt; I think that there were several lessons given by MIETE that can be applied to all the people to all the jobs, apart from the development of several important competences such as team work, leadership, work priorities and organization, to think big (the world is your market), to be open minded (a good opportunity does not have to be in your graduate area), and if one does not have potential, there are others that do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Would you go through it all over again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CM:&lt;/span&gt; Definitely, even if there was not a business in the end, I learned important things that can be used in all professional activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; The negotiation of the technology Intellectual Property Rights is now going through its last steps. You and your MIETE colleague are about to start you’re new Venture in September. What does it feel like?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CM: &lt;/span&gt;This has a huge step. In the beginning of this process the team discussed the intentions and ways of participating in this business at the time we were still finishing the thesis so the negotiations were in a more slow rhythm. Now entering in the last steps of the negotiations’ the stress is rising, especially because Portuguese Universities are not used to technology transfer to start ups so the process is slow and full of bureaucracies. There is now an increasing responsibility and enthusiasm of starting a business that you planned throught the last two years.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-115442978431787448?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115442978431787448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=115442978431787448' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/115442978431787448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/115442978431787448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/08/think-big-be-open-minded-get-excited.html' title='Think big! Be open minded! Get excited with your own business!'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-115219789461725409</id><published>2006-07-06T15:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T10:51:10.660+01:00</updated><title type='text'>We care about your competitive advantage!</title><content type='html'>It is our vision to achieve world-class excelence in the construction of technology-based ventures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To this end we started the construction of the MIETE knowledge base (MIETE.KB) in order to provide our current and old students with a clear competitive advantage in the construction of technology-based businesses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we all know, each business is a new business and a competitive advantage can be gained by sharing past errors, bad and successful experiences and approaches, as well as solutions to the most common issues. Having this in mind, we started a collaborative effort to gather knowledge regarding know-how and best practices, validated by the daily experience acquired in the construction of product and business value propositions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIETE.KB currently covers:&lt;br /&gt;- Methodological issues and best practices&lt;br /&gt;- Information sources (secondary information sources)&lt;br /&gt;- MIETE in videostream (MIETE &lt;a href="http://paginas.fe.up.pt/miete/index-en.html"&gt;&lt;span class="menu"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TEC Sequence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seminars are recorded during the classes and published in Quicktime Hinted Streaming or MPEG4)&lt;br /&gt;- MIETE student's contacts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIETE Knowledge Base is built on the Mediawiki platform. Access to the MIETE.KB is granted to every MIETE student and old-student. After authentication, the MIETE community is granted access to the collaborative edition of all its contents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We started in October 2005 and the MIETE.KB is growing slowly as students realize the clear advantages of its usage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What our students say...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Is it usefull?&lt;/span&gt; “Yes, it can be very usefull”; “It is a superb working tool allowing experiences of successes and failures to be shared”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Have you used it before?&lt;/span&gt; “Yes, I was looking for Patent information”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Did you manage to make any contributions so far?&lt;/span&gt; “Not yet, still more handy to use email. Maybe the interface can be improved”; “No, lack of time”; "Yes, one contribution made and a few more under preparation"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lessons learned and future actions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIETE.KB benefits are recognised by a broad majority of students. However, its usage is still not straight-forward for everybody, namely the editing. Next year new students will be given training on how to use this infrastructure so that the MIETE.KB can also be used as FAQ forum from the 1st day. This should ensure that the right momentum is gained on the knowledge gathering. We will further keep our effort to ensure that all contributions are made in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;João José Pinto Ferreira, Director of MIETE&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-115219789461725409?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115219789461725409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=115219789461725409' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/115219789461725409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/115219789461725409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/07/we-care-about-your-competitive.html' title='We care about your competitive advantage!'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-115079687374648767</id><published>2006-06-20T10:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-20T11:12:32.520+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Mafalda, Interior Designer, joined IDEAVITY as project leader in January 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/foto_mafaldaWEB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/200/foto_mafaldaWEB.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mafalda Moreira is an Interior Designer graduated at the High School of Arts and Design of Matosinhos (ESAD) where she developed some critical texts for the school publication “ESAD Questioning”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;At her senior year Mafalda exposed a prototyped project at FUTURE AMBIENTS exhibition at EXPONOR. Also result of a senior year project, Mafalda was invited by ESAD to participate in a collective exhibition to be at BIENAL de CERVEIRA and afterwards at Municipal Gallery at the Matosinhos City Hall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Her projects were presented at several design magazines such has Experimenta (Spanish Design Magazine) and Espaço &amp; Design (Portuguese Design magazine).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Until January 2006 she has been working with ESAD in the Communications and Projects Office, where she worked on the organization of events and publications, partnerships with cultural and governmental institutions and with foreign institutions including the co-coordination of European projects sponsored by the European Union.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mafalda joined MIETE 1st edition in September 2004 and IDEAVITY in January 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt; After the interview with the Mingle team talking with you was a must! Mafalda, please you tell us a little bit about your background? What lead you to design and to interior design and, finally, to Innovation and Entrepreneurship?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MM:&lt;/span&gt; First of all I’ve always had a wide range of interests. And doing a Design degree was the way to keep in touch with all disciplines that surround Design and explore all factors that contribute to make Design. I’ve started by Communication Design and afterwards changed to Interior Design because I felt the need to work the space and explore its interrelation with users. Communication Design is nevertheless always present in my projects because Design is also To Communicate. To make project come alive has everything to do with Entrepreneurship, so I decided to explore the Innovation and Entrepreneurship field. This revealed to me as an area in which creation and finding opportunities to explore are the key concepts.&lt;br /&gt;The good thing about this Master Course was that I could adapt the optional courses to my profile and chose those that best fit my interests, namely courses from MSc in Multimedia Technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; You joined IDEAVITY as Project Leader. Along the whole course your experience has been very interesting. You started by working on a fuel cell business concept, then moved to the Ortophoto Project with our colleague Sérgio Reis Cunha (&lt;a href="http://miete-cast.blogspot.com/2006/02/projecto-psa_15.html"&gt;see video of PSA project at MIETE-CAST&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pt&lt;/span&gt;). For this project you and your MIETE colleagues developed a business plan that will most likely be used to launch the actual business. We also know that you have been working with the Mingle Team for more than a year. Can you tell us a little bit about how this collaboration started and your motivations to join IDEAVITY?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MM: &lt;/span&gt;This collaboration started on an optional course from the MSc in Multimedia Technology called “Human-Computer Interaction”. My colleagues were developing a business concept for teens communication via WEB and mobile devices and for that course we formed a group and developed a product concentrating on usability issues.&lt;br /&gt;Has a team we developed a very good relation and most of all, we had lots of fun doing a project that became very interesting  for the MINGLE concept.&lt;br /&gt;During the first year of the master I’ve kept in touch with my colleague’s refinement of their business concept, giving some inputs in the design area: the project name and some possible services to create. From that collaboration emerged the invitation to join the team at IDEAVITY as project leader in January 2006. I’ve accepted the invitation and left my former job because I believe in the MINGLE concept and want to bring it to the teanagers all over the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Further reading: MIETE-BLOG Post dated from January 25, 2006: "The Teenager Digital Life Interface" (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-business-creativity-is-both-trigger.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-115079687374648767?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/115079687374648767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=115079687374648767' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/115079687374648767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/115079687374648767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/06/mafalda-interior-designer-joined.html' title='Mafalda, Interior Designer, joined IDEAVITY as project leader in January 2006'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-114951350207348673</id><published>2006-06-05T14:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T15:49:57.136+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Não desanimar e avançar continuamente, são as palavras do dia!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/TeresaDieguez.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/200/TeresaDieguez.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Dra Teresa Dieguez é Licenciada em Economia pela FEP e actualmente Directora Executiva da AFIA - Associação de Fabricantes para a Indústria Automóvel. Em Setembro do ano passado deu-nos a honra da sua preferência pelo MIETE.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Dra. Teresa Dieguez gostariamos de começar por lhe agradeçer a disponibilidade para esta breve entrevista. Permita-nos abrir esta breve conversa com a seguinte questão: qual é, na sua opinião, a utilidade de um mestrado como o MIETE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TD: &lt;/span&gt;Um mestrado como o MIETE é, sobretudo, uma oportunidade única de contactar, comparar, aprender e trocar experiências. Para profissionais no activo, como é o meu caso, o MIETE é uma forma muito próxima de estabelecer a ponte entre o mundo académico e o mundo empresarial.&lt;br /&gt;Com efeito, estamos perante a emergência de uma nova ordem sócio-económica internacional que apresenta de forma desordenada, e muitas vezes contraditória, um conjunto de elementos, ou tendências, onde interagem a globalização, a economia do conhecimento e a sociedade de informação. Essas novas realidades económicas provocam mudanças profundas relativas às manifestações da competitividade, nomeadamente no que diz respeito às mutações constantes dos seus referenciais (tecnologia, produtos e mercados), à ampliação da base competitiva (espaços, agentes e estratégias) e à virtualização dos factores de competitividade (organização, marketing e inovação).&lt;br /&gt;Neste enquadramento, estar próximo das fontes de saber, num ambiente informal e rico em desafios, permite “perceber” melhor o ambiente que nos rodeia e poder, assim, antecipar decisões estratégicas e identificar factores críticos de sucesso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Na sua perspectiva quais são as mais-valias do MIETE para os alunos que o frequentam? Será que se lhes podem abrir novos horizontes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TD: &lt;/span&gt;As mais-valias para os alunos do MIETE são, sobretudo, desenvolver as capacidades empreendedora e competitiva de cada um. Ter que associar a uma componente mais formal uma componente essencialmente prática não é tarefa fácil. Tentar encontrar tecnologias ou ideias novas, com características únicas e altamente diferenciadoras exige uma capacidade criativa grande e um auto-controlo elevado. “Não desanimar e avançar continuamente” são as palavras do dia.&lt;br /&gt;Os horizontes que se podem abrir com um mestrado deste tipo são muitos, dependendo essencialmente da forma como cada aluno encara este tipo de formação, menos conservadora, mas mais exigente e mais imbuído de competências sociais e comportamentais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Desde a sua concepção que o MIETE considerou fundamental permitir aos seus alunos construir um curso à medida das suas necessidades através da escolha de disciplinas optativas tecnológicas ou de gestão (&lt;a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/miete"&gt;MIETE&lt;/a&gt;). Este factor pesou na sua decisão no momento em que escolheu o curso? Considera que este factor fundamental para tornar possível a reunião de pessoas com várias valências? Que balanço faz da sua experiência?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TD:&lt;/span&gt; O facto de o  MIETE permitir aos alunos construir um curso à medida das suas necessidades foi o factor-crítico na minha decisão. Para além de ser um mestrado inovador por conciliar aspectos mais operacionais e técnicos com aspectos mais estratégicos, permite aprofundar os temas que mais prazer dão a cada participante.&lt;br /&gt;Ao longo da  vida, quer pessoal, quer profissional, há oportunidade para conhecer realidades e ambientes diferentes. Muitas das vezes, quando se opta por uma formação inicial, ainda se é muito novo para “saber” o que ser quer e do que se gosta. Mais tarde, por diversos motivos, há muito espaço para aprender, mas poucas oportunidades para o fazer. Por estes factores, reunir pessoas com várias valências, mas com interesses comuns, só pode enriquecer o processo de aprendizagem mútua e reflectida que poderá induzir acções concretas e devidamente sustentáveis.&lt;br /&gt;Estou a  gostar da minha participação no MIETE. Conciliar vida profissional, com vida familiar e vida académica, não é fácil… Mas gosto de desafios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;A formação na construção de negócios de base tecnológica é leccionada orientada ao “aprender fazendo”. Considera esta abordagem uma mais-valia do curso? Será a formação adequada à necessidade das empresas? Quais os pontos fortes e quais os pontos fracos desta abordagem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TD:&lt;/span&gt; A formação na construção de negócios de base tecnológica é, sem dúvida, uma mais valia. Não é, no entanto, e como já atrás referi, uma abordagem cómoda, rápida e com garantia de sucesso. Encontrar tecnologias inovadoras, não é fácil e comum…&lt;br /&gt;A formação leccionada é adequada às necessidades das empresas… mas convém encontrar a “tal” tecnologia.&lt;br /&gt;Como pontos fortes apontaria a forma eficaz como se desenha um processo criativo, se constrói um plano de negócios, se discute em equipa o projecto, desde a concepção ao negócio.&lt;br /&gt;Como pontos fracos, mas que não está directamente ligado com o mestrado, o facto de as tecnologias diferenciadoras não serem muitas, exigindo uma procura constante e uma força grande para não desanimar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Numa visão de alguém que vem da da indústria, qual o papel que este curso pode desempenhar na interface entre a indústria e a universidade?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TD: &lt;/span&gt;A indústria e a Universidade estão de “costas” voltadas uma para a outra. Um curso como o MIETE pode constituir um pólo dinamizador de contactos, atendendo a que é possível e viável os seus elementos falarem uma linguagem comum e terem um conjunto de objectivos: inovar e competir numa óptica de livre concorrência.&lt;br /&gt;É importante que o tecido empresarial conheça o curso e que seja constituído um centro, não necessariamente formal, que potencie os contactos com ideias novas e sua concretização.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Na sua opinião em que áreas é que os conhecimentos adquiridos no MIETE podem ser potenciados?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TD:&lt;/span&gt; Os conhecimentos adquiridos, porque o MIETE já pressupõe a possibilidade de optar por um conjunto interessante de disciplinas tecnológicas e de gestão, são mais do que suficientes. Para os alunos que ainda têm pouco contacto com o mundo de trabalho, recomendaria disciplinas mais ligadas a aspectos comportamentais e sociais.&lt;br /&gt;Permito-me apenas fazer um pequeno reparo que passa por não estar perspectivada nenhuma formação em prospectiva, disciplina que considero crucial para os dias de hoje e que, atendendo à heterogeneidade do grupo, poderia constituir mais  um factor diferenciador do curso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Será o MIETE oportunidade para uma nova orientação de vida?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TD:&lt;/span&gt; Talvez. Quando escolhi o MIETE fi-lo porque precisava de “sentir” o mundo académico mais próximo. Não tinha em mente nenhum projecto ou nenhum negócio. O mundo automóvel é um mundo cheio de desafios e que me absorve muita energia…&lt;br /&gt;Hoje se a tecnologia que estou a desenvolver for validada e constituir uma oportunidade de negócio interessante, sou capaz de seguir para a frente.&lt;br /&gt;Como eu, é provável que os meus colegas sintam o mesmo. Creio que não é correcto encarar o MIETE como a garantia do negócio, mas é sem dúvida uma excelente ferramenta para aprendermos a trabalhar o negócio.&lt;br /&gt;A equipa é fantástica, os orientadores estão próximos, a discussão é frequente e a cooperação é total.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Permita-me que conclua com mais um agradecimento pela disponibilidade e com os melhores votos de felicidades.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-114951350207348673?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/114951350207348673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=114951350207348673' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/114951350207348673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/114951350207348673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/06/no-desanimar-e-avanar-continuamente-so.html' title='Não desanimar e avançar continuamente, são as palavras do dia!'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-114669512962890758</id><published>2006-05-03T23:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T21:07:32.506+01:00</updated><title type='text'>MIETE, Um Mestrado Radical!</title><content type='html'>Quando vemos um empresário de sucesso, um campeão olímpico ou do campeonato do mundo de BMX vemos apenas a coroação de um esforço e dedicação ao longo de anos de paixão por um objectivo.&lt;br /&gt;Já agora, valia a pena pensar nisto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"O Empreendedorismo é um Desporto Radical"&lt;br /&gt;Michael Goldberg (General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures)&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Dia 02.22.06, aos 38mins da entrevista &lt;a href="http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasting.shtml"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt; no Stanford Technology Ventures Program (Educators Corner)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma fantástica história de empreendedorismo!&lt;br /&gt;Chong-Moon Lee (Chairman &amp;amp; CEO, Ambex Venture Group)&lt;br /&gt;&gt; Dia 02.15.06 &lt;a href="http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasting.shtml"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt; no Stanford Technology Ventures Program (Educators Corner)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-114669512962890758?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/114669512962890758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=114669512962890758' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/114669512962890758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/114669512962890758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/05/miete-um-mestrado-radical.html' title='MIETE, Um Mestrado Radical!'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-114260353454153234</id><published>2006-03-17T13:47:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-20T18:05:34.650Z</updated><title type='text'>5% de inspiração e 95% de transpiração</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/JJPF-blog.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/200/JJPF-blog.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Concluída a parte escolar da primeira edição do Mestrado em Inovação e Empreendedorismo Tecnológico (MIETE) é momento de reflexão. Este curso não é, de facto, um curso de mestrado alinhado com o modelo clássico de formação pós-graduada. O facto de se dar início à pesquisa de uma oportunidade de negócio desde o primeiro dia de frequência do curso imprime-lhe, só por si, um cunho certamente especial. O processo não é fácil. Trata-se de aprender a construir ideias de negócio, validá-las e ser capaz de as abandonar se não se vislumbrar uma oportunidade para suprir uma necessidade ou resolver um problema de um número suficientemente relevante de clientes ou consumidores. É este o desafio colocado aos nossos alunos e, por isso mesmo, também o nosso. É um fantástico trabalho de equipa, de grupos de alunos e professores que ao longo do curso desenvolvem um elevado nível de cooperação para um mesmo objectivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No passado dia 23 de Fevereiro tivemos oportunidade de assistir ao culminar da parte escolar da primeira edição deste curso na &lt;a href="http://paginas.fe.up.pt/miete/Documentos/MIETE.23Fev_PosterA4.pdf"&gt;Sessão de Apresentação de Resultados&lt;/a&gt;. Foi um período extraordinário de aprendizagem. A incorporação da metodologia desenvolvida no centro HiTEC da North Carolina State University no curso e a sua adaptação à realidade europeia e, em particular, à portuguesa, foi a máxima prioridade da equipa de docentes e colaboradores do MIETE. Estamos neste momento melhores do que há um ano. A colaboração dos nossos primeiros alunos foi fundamental. Tiveram a clarividência de nos apontar alguns dos nossos pontos fracos para que fosse possível melhorar. Queremos de facto ser melhores. É nosso desejo transformar este curso numa referência na formação em Inovação e Empreendedorismo e é nisso que estamos a investir o nosso esforço.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A avaliação realizada, semana a semana e semestre a semestre, aos resultados obtidos é usada não só para realizar ajustes e correcções ao trabalho e orientação estabelecidas mas, também, para tirar lições e estabelecer melhores práticas para o futuro. Para isso contamos com os nossos actuais alunos e com os nossos (futuros) ex-alunos. Estamos neste contexto a construir a Base de Conhecimento MIETE onde se pretende reflectir experiências e práticas na construção do negócio. Estamos ainda a reunir todas as aulas em Vídeo (stream-video MPEG4 on-line) tornando-as disponíveis para todos os nossos alunos. Criamos deste modo uma comunidade onde a partilha do conhecimento e experiência se pode tornar num factor competitivo e distintivo do MIETE para agilizar o processo de construção de negócios de base tecnológica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O &lt;a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/miete"&gt;MIETE&lt;/a&gt; oferece assim “formação integrada nos processos de Inovação e Empreendedorismo em Tecnologia, promovendo a valorização económica de ideias, tecnologias e oportunidades levando, sempre que possível, à sua exploração comercial”. Este curso tem como missão “disseminar uma cultura empreendedora e fomentar o empreendedorismo de base tecnológica através da formação aplicada ao desenvolvimento de projectos de negócios de base tecnológica”, estabelecendo a ponte entre a Investigação e Desenvolvimento que se realiza na Universidade e o Mundo Empresarial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ao candidatar-se ao MIETE cada indivíduo deve estar consciente que está a aceitar uma experiência de vida diferente. Deve ser capaz de lidar com a incerteza dos problemas reais e ter a força e capacidade de trabalho para os ultrapassar. Ao longo do mestrado é garantida a formação, o acompanhamento do trabalho individual e em equipa, e uma orientação cuidada no processo de construção de um negócio de base tecnológica. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Objectivo do curso: construção de negócios de base tecnológica. Um objectivo sem dúvida ambicioso onde cada projecto é um novo projecto. Sim, apesar de eventuais semelhanças, um negócio na área farmacêutica não é igual a um projecto na área de equipamento médico. Os problemas a ultrapassar serão diferentes e a forma de os ultrapassar também. É isso mesmo, como em tudo na vida não existem soluções padronizadas. As soluções são construídas com os típicos "5% de inspiração e 95% de transpiração", ultrapassando-se obstáculos com criatividade e trabalho sério e consistente. Não é afinal isto o empreendedorismo? No MIETE temos deste modo actividade de construção de negócio ao longo de 3 semestres: primeiro na construção de uma ideia de negócio e na sua validação, depois na construção do plano de negócios e, finalmente, no seu refinamento sucessivo para apresentar a potenciais investidores. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na FEUP e na UP estamos ao seu dispor! &lt;br /&gt;Se tem uma ideia ... &lt;br /&gt;Se aceita mudar de ideias se encontrar outra mais valiosa (€)... &lt;br /&gt;Se está disposto a trabalhar no duro para a concretizar... &lt;br /&gt;Se falhar está disposto a tentar de novo (só nunca falha quem não tenta)...&lt;br /&gt;... Avançe! Entre no desafio do MIETE ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/si/FUNCIONARIOS_GERAL.formview?p_codigo=210653"&gt;João José Pinto Ferreira&lt;/a&gt;, Director do MIETE&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-114260353454153234?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/114260353454153234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=114260353454153234' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/114260353454153234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/114260353454153234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/03/5-de-inspirao-e-95-de-transpirao.html' title='5% de inspiração e 95% de transpiração'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-113812017088190615</id><published>2006-01-25T16:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-01-27T09:44:03.063Z</updated><title type='text'>In Business, Creativity is both a trigger and a continuous process &amp; THE Teenager Digital Life Interface</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/Robin-Lowe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/Robin-Lowe.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;In Business, Creativity is both a trigger and a continuous process&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Robin Lowe has an impressive experience and curriculum. He is currently Principal Lecturer in Marketing Sheffield Hallam University, Head of the Sheffield Business School Enterprise Centre, Business Development Manager for the Enterprise Centre (concentrating on student entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and innovation). Robin is also author of several books and worked for twenty-five years in industry both with large and small companies, helping to start up new businesses. We had the pleasure and honour of his visit last December for lecturing at our Master Programme in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Robin, please let me thank you so much for this interview. Entrepreneurship is fashionable these days but it has been pushing our world ahead for many, many years. How you describe your experience in student entrepreneurship at Sheffield Hallam University?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:  &lt;/span&gt;Thanks it is my pleasure to have been invited to participate in your excellent programme and discussions.  For many years graduates in the UK have typically followed the path of starting their career with a large organisation with some expressing their intention to start their own business once they had overcome the barriers to start up by gaining business experience, building up contacts and possibly even savings to invest.  More recently there has been a significant increase in the number of students that are more interested in becoming entrepreneurs soon.  I believe that there are a number of reasons for this.  For example, schools and universities provide more encouragement and support, there are no longer guaranteed, satisfying 'jobs for life' with large organisations, start up costs can be lower due to the Internet and Ebay, which allows small scale start ups, and there are more realistic entrepreneur heroes for students, such as Alex Tew who started up &lt;a href="http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/"&gt;www.milliondollarhomepage.com&lt;/a&gt; in August last year to pay his Nottingham University UK tuition fees and had generated revenue of $1million by mid January.&lt;br /&gt;A few of our students are already running their own business and others have some excellent ideas for the near future. We run a business planning competition each year which also helps to generate some new student businesses. In our courses we are encouraging students to take a broader view of entrepreneurship that is not about only starting your own business, and the idea seems to be well received.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Would you say that one is born entrepreneur? Can entrepreneurship be induced?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:&lt;/span&gt; There are clearly stereotypical serial entrepreneurs that demonstrate all the characteristics that have been the subject of seemingly endless academic researched over many years.  These are the names that are instantly recognisable and they usually say that they succeeded without any help, training or advice.  In my experience there are many more people that have an 'entrepreneurial moment'.  From time to time we all spot the opportunity to connect an idea, such as a technological development with a potential market.  The idea may not be our own. Some of us have sufficient desire to be an owner manager, have acquired the necessary practical business knowledge to commercialise the idea and are encouraged and supported during the start up process.  These become entrepreneurs. I believe that your programme is effective because it provides encouragement and support at each stage of the process and this is obviously paying off with the quality and progress of the businesses being created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Sumit Ghosh states that "It is common knowledge that while creativity is elusive, its impact on the advancement of civilization, arts, science, and engineering, is definite and profound." Based on your experience could we further add that Creativity is the Trigger of Entrepreneurship?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:&lt;/span&gt;  The Oxford English Dictionary defines creativity as the ability to create.  As entrepreneurship is about creating a new activity then the case can be made relatively easily.  However, this generalisation does not really help because the contribution of creativity to entrepreneurship depends on the context. Over the years technological or artistic creativity has been the trigger for some of the most significant product and service innovation examples of entrepreneurship.  However, creativity in the way that prisons are run, in the way that a charity raises funds or the government develops its environmental policy could also be considered entrepreneurial.  Equally, as well as the step changes brought about by creativity, there are many examples of small scale or incremental creativity, for example, in the way that traditional products and services are marketed or in the way the organization generates its revenues using an e-business model.  Sometimes the benefits attributed to creativity can be viewed too narrowly.  My experience tells me that some technological or artistic entrepreneurs believe that the technology or artistic idea will be sufficient alone to make the new product or service a success.  However, the real test is whether customers will buy the product.  Some successful entrepreneurial organisations, such as Apple are creative in every area of their business activity, so creativity is both a trigger and a continuous process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; As you know the methodology we are using was developed at the HiTEC Centre (NCSU) and we have been adjusting it to the Portuguese reality. At this point in time it seems that we may have a couple of startups coming out of the 1st edition of this master programme, one of them clearly "Triggered by a Creative Process". When discussing this issue we usually say that any startup coming out of this programme is only a "side-effect" of the actual training process and result of real hard work of the students involved. We have the advantage of working with real projects but that carries also some risk. What is your feeling about this scenario in a Master Programme?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:&lt;/span&gt; Masters programmes are changing considerably.  For example, the traditional low risk US and European model of the MBA is being increasingly criticised because it is structured around standard modules of marketing, finance and HRM etc that are designed to transfer to students some theories for handling the generic problems that firms faced in the 1980s and 1990s. Problem focused approaches at Masters programmes are much more relevant to the 2000s because they encourage more reflection and re-evaluation of issues, integration of solutions and transformation of the organisation.  Moreover, part time masters students no longer have the luxury of taking time simply to study topics that might be ‘nice to know’ - they need outputs that are beneficial in helping their organisation become more competitive or enhancing their career.&lt;br /&gt;Your programme (&lt;a href="http://www.fe.up.pt/miete"&gt;MIETE&lt;/a&gt;) goes two steps further by integrating business and technology and then creating, where appropriate a new business.  The core activity of a university is knowledge transfer not only for the benefit of students but the wider community too and so education, training and practice are coming ever closer together.  Creating new spin businesses or using other methods to commercialise knowledge will become increasing important outputs for leading edge universities and this will benefit the community in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Do you think that working with real cases is a plus in the sense that it makes our students more confident when addressing new problems?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:&lt;/span&gt; Most entrepreneurs (and managers too) will emphasise how reflecting on their experiences (successes and failures) has made them more confident in their future decision making. Business in general and entrepreneurship in particular is about decision making, because problems rarely have one obvious solution.  There has been a trend in the 1990s to develop processes to reduce the occasions that managers are required to make decisions.  But there are times when more significant changes need to be made and this requires confidence that comes from experience.&lt;br /&gt;In universities we use case studies to try to simulate problem solving and decision making but this is no substitute for the 'real thing' - working on a real case - where the consequences affect the performance of the business for a long time to come, rather than simply prompting a further half hour discussion after class over a drink, before the talk turns to football!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Would you say that our student’s training is valuable to stimulate Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship in Europe? Which aspects would you like to highlight?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:&lt;/span&gt; There are two, first initial training and, second, continual learning.&lt;br /&gt;The failure rate amongst new starts is very high and many large organisations still have a 'blame' culture that discourages intrapreneurship.  I think that we are winning the argument about entrepreneurs being made as well as being born, but I think we need to work harder to demonstrate that with training, students achieve higher levels of new start success, start firms with higher growth potential and are very effective in transfering technology and other knowledge into organisations.  To compete globally we require managers that gain a knowledge of theories and concepts, are aware of the wider business environment, are confident in combining technological and business expertise and gain the essential practical skills of leadership and teamworking but also gain the entrepreneurial skills of innovation, flexibility, adaptability and responsiveness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; In your opinion which would be the value added of a type of master programme as MIETE for a brand new undergraduate in engineering and economics related fields? And for those already at the market place, i.e., with a job position?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:&lt;/span&gt; Undergraduates are entering university having been made much more aware of the world of work at school.  Those already in a job increasingly recognise that career advancement depends on learning new knowledge and skills.  Potential employers are looking for recruits that as well as having expertise in a specialist field, such as law, accountancy, medicine and science can demonstrate business awareness, the skills of enterprise, such as self reliance, creativity, planning, problem solving, implementation and so on.  Students are increasingly realizing that they will have to be entrepreneurial or be able to manage those around them that are innovative if they are to progress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; The world is changing at a rapid pace. How important do you think it is to build international relationships and partnerships between firms, universities and institutes to face that pace? How can those relationships and partnerships foster creativity and entrepreneurship?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;RL:&lt;/span&gt;  Few organisations have sufficient resources and capability 'in-house' to keep pace with change and compete in a global market place.  The temptation is to work with partners that can add complementary skills and expertise. But a word of warning is necessary because the failure rate of partnerships is high, particularly amongst international alliances that involve organisations from different social and business cultures. The challenge is to decide who to partner with and for what purpose.  Then it is necessary to understand where the partner is coming from.  Whilst universities are becoming more 'business-like' in their commercial dealings, private business partners often forget that the primary purpose of a university is learning and spend the first few meetings asking the impossible and telling the university how it should operate!  In practice the creativity and entrepreneurship is generated by connecting quite different ideas but before it can be exploited it usually requires an individual or team with the ability to translate the ideas so that they are appropriate in a new context.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Robin, it was great to have you in our BLOG, thank you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reference: Sumit Ghosh, "Triggering Creativity in Science and Engineering: Reflection as a Catalyst", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 38: 255–275, 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;THE Teenager Digital Life Interface&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jorge Santos and Fernando Gomes joined the Master Programme in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship (MIETE) in September 2004. At the same time, Fernando Almeida joined the TEC Sequence MIETE (joined the Master programme in September of 2005). The three worked together along 2004/05 and became the MINGLE Project team.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Let me start by thanking the MINGLE Project Team for this interview in our BLOG. Fernando Almeida, Jorge Santos and Fernando Gomes (MINGLE Project team), we were most flattered by your achievement in winning the 1st prize on the NET/ADI idea and business plan competition. You have a great concept. It seems that this now the time to get your hands on the real business. You are starting this February and we would like to start this interview by wishing you all the luck for your endeavour.&lt;br /&gt;Your company will be based in Porto, how did that happened? Can you describe how it all started?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE: &lt;/span&gt;We were born and live in Porto, and we believe that Porto has the right “millieu” to create outstanding creative companies. Our work in MIETE was already a quite good starting point to a strong business case, but the trigger to materialize that work into a company was really winning the first prize on the NET/AdI ideas contest. More recently, the support received from Porto Digital was also a huge incentive that allows us to be more aggressive in the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; What is the company name, do you already have one?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE:&lt;/span&gt; We created a company called Ideavity. Ideavity first product will be Mingle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;What does it stand for? How did you get to it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE: &lt;/span&gt;IDEAVITY = IDEAs to the power of creatiVITY. The objective is to leverage the emerging Web 2.0 concepts and use them as a strong implementation platform for creative industries concepts. Starting from here, we did a little of brain/mail/sms storming and got to Ideavity. Our mantra is to create a “singularity” in the space/time of creative industries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Please tell us a little bit about each of you and about your backgrounds?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/JSantos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/JSantos.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Jorge)&lt;/span&gt; I love innovation and to create and try new concepts. For me, candor, openness and respect are the keystones to create strong teams that can make dreams a reality. One of my preferred quotes is “If you can dream it, you can do it.” (Walt Disney). I have a degree in Computer Science and always worked in that area. In the last years I was the head of innovation in Enabler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/FGomes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/FGomes.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Fernando Gomes) &lt;/span&gt;I love challenges, and to apply creativity to accomplish them. I’m a fan of the LEGO concept, building solutions based on blocks and not by “reinventing the wheel”. I also love to work with multidisciplinary teams, the different backgrounds and experiences usually catalyze the team, enabling results greater than the sum of each member effort. One of my favorite quotes is “Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple” (Charles Mingus).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/FernandoAlmeida.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10pt 10pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/FernandoAlmeida.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I have a degree in Electric and Computer Engineering. Currently I’m a project manager and software quality assurance responsible at EFACEC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Fernando Almeida)&lt;/span&gt; I have a University degree in Informatics and Computer Engineering at Porto Engineering Faculty. I’m now working at FEUP, where I am responsible for the analysis and development of new software systems for the SEF department.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;We do not want to disclose your business idea, that is clear, but we would like to go back to where we were one year ago. As I recall it all started with a bunch of technologies and a huge mind map with lots and lots of ideas. You now have an innovative virtual platform for collaboration. What did happen that made you arrive to this more elaborate and focused stage?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE: &lt;/span&gt;Exactly. We started brainstorming (Ideation phase of MIETE – Just Ideas, Sky is the limit) around the concepts of Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Communications, Intelligent Gadgets, Artificial Intelligence, RFID… Than we built the TPM connections (Technology – Product – Markets) and choose the strongest ones. During this phase we refined and focused the product and the markets (Virtual Worlds, Avatars, IM, and Mobile Avatars, for teenagers). After that we went to the Business Plan phase of MIETE where we refined even more the concept based on the market strategy, organizational and financial plans arriving to Mingle that at a very high level can be described as THE Teenager Digital Life Interface, creating a new type of mobile social networking platform where they can choose who they are, share their thoughts and emotions, organize their activities, make new friends and communicate anytime anywhere at an affordable cost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;It seems that the Creative Process was particularly relevant for you. How relevant you assess the training you got at MIETE and are still getting in this particular area?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE:&lt;/span&gt; That’s true. MIETE training gave us new and powerful perspectives about the use of creative processes to generate powerful business concepts. For us, the creative process was fundamental in the beginning (Ideation), but it was always present during all the MIETE phases, to refine and adapt the product in ways that make it more competitive. It is very important to say that the creative process during these later phases was always very carefully aligned with the objectives of the business plan. Now at the end we did some additional brainstorming sessions using synetics methodology to find some additional powerful features for the first version of the product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; You have been assembling your operational team. You have already designers, programmers with different experiences and backgrounds. It looks great! How difficult it was for you to get and motivate these people to your project?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/Mafalda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/Mafalda.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE: &lt;/span&gt;We are doing that at this moment. We already have the project leader (our colleague Mafalda) and some team members. We are still doing interviews and trying to get all the team we need. This is quite difficult and challenging as we are really an early stage startup competing for resources against established, well known and successful companies in the market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; What are your next steps?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MINGLE: &lt;/span&gt;We are putting together the team and dealing with all the administrative and logistics associated with the company setup. In March we start the development of the first working version of the product. In the middle of the year it will go live and evolve in a very agile and dynamic way based on the feedback of the users. In the last quarter we will start actively finding investors for a first round of investment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-113812017088190615?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/113812017088190615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=113812017088190615' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/113812017088190615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/113812017088190615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-business-creativity-is-both-trigger.html' title='In Business, Creativity is both a trigger and a continuous process &amp; THE Teenager Digital Life Interface'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-113380368065848713</id><published>2005-12-13T12:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-14T17:27:33.926Z</updated><title type='text'>Uma Parceria Diferenciadora. Pernas para "ANDAR" &amp; Opinião no BLOG: "Smart Countries"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/profJoseCosta.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/200/profJoseCosta.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Uma Parceria Diferenciadora&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Professor José da Silva Costa, Director da FEP, é docente do Grupo de Economia da FEP e acompanhou o MIETE desde o seu nascimento em Julho de 2004. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Sr. Professor José da Silva Costa, muito obrigado pela disponibilidade para esta breve entrevista. Em 2004 deu o seu apoio a este projecto que então arranca em parceria com a FEUP e com a EGP. Desde então já passou um ano lectivo e teve oportunidade de presenciar os resultados obtidos em Julho passado. Estaremos no bom caminho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JC: &lt;/span&gt;Tendo em conta os resultados obtidos, estou convicto que sim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Na sua perspectiva quais são as mais-valias para os alunos? Que horizontes é que se lhes abrem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JC:&lt;/span&gt; O facto de ser uma parceria de escolas com recursos humanos em áreas científicas complementares é um elemento diferenciador deste programa. Para os alunos é uma oportunidade única de desenvolvimento de competências na área do emprendedorismo tecnológico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Na sua opinião em que áreas é que os conhecimentos adquiridos no MIETE podem ser potenciados?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JC: &lt;/span&gt;Pelo aproveitamento do capital de risco e capital semente disponível para financiar ideias inovadoras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Qual o papel que este Mestrado pode desempenhar na FEP?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JC:&lt;/span&gt; Para a FEP é fundamental porque permite o desenvolvimento de competências nos domínios da gestão da inovação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Qual o benefício que o MIETE poderá ter no aumento da competitividade do Porto-Região na área da inovação e empreendedorismo e, de uma forma mais abrangente, qual o papel que o MIETE pode desempenhar na nossa sociedade?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;JC:&lt;/span&gt; Este mestrado permite à UP e à cidade-região percorrer a curva de aprendizagem num domínio novo aproveitando os conhecimentos de parceiros internacionais mais experientes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/MiguelVelhote.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/MiguelVelhote.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pernas para "ANDAR"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;O Professor Miguel Velhote Correia é docente no Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e Computadores da FEUP. Disponibilizou no ano lectivo 2004/05 os resultados do seu trabalho de investigação a uma equipa do MIETE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG&lt;/span&gt;: Muito obrigado pela disponibilidade para esta breve entrevista. Pode dar a sua opinião sobre a experiência pessoal como investigador e tecnólogo em colaboração com uma equipa de desenvolvimento de negócio?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MVC:&lt;/span&gt; Considero estar a ser uma experiência muito positiva, pois veio alargar os horizontes e permitiu ter consciência de questões que não me haviam sido colocadas antes. Entendo que o potencial de negócio é também um barómetro do interesse e da utilidade da investigação que se faz e da inovação tecnológica. Faz todo o sentido associar a investigação a iniciativas de desenvolvimento de negócio, pois são já bem conhecidas as dificuldades em transferir o conhecimento e as tecnologias para fora da Universidade e dos centros de investigação. A colaboração com a equipa do MIETE tem sido muito positiva e desde o início que há um entusiasmo e motivação muito fortes para concretizar as ideias e objectivos propostos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BOLG:&lt;/span&gt; Como surgiu aderiu à ideia de ceder os resultados do seu trabalho de investigação a uma equipa do MIETE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MVC:&lt;/span&gt; Foi um desafio que o colega João José lançou e que de imediato aceitei. O projecto de inovação tecnológica que tinha em curso estava a ter bons resultados e numa fase em que precisava de um empurrão para sair da bancada de ensaios e do laboratório. Como se tratava de um desenvolvimento que partiu de uma solicitação de uma entidade externa à Universidade, achei que a ideia tinha potencial para ser comercializada e com pernas para "ANDAR". Todos as reacções que temos tido até agora têm confirmado esta hipótese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG: &lt;/span&gt;Há mais pessoas envolvidas? Tem acompanhado o trabalho da equipa do MIETE que está a desenvolver o plano de negócios para a sua tecnologia? Do que lhe foi dado a conhecer sobre a metodologia TEC, qual a sua opinião?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MVC: &lt;/span&gt;Sim. Desde o início que contamos com a colaboração e apoio incondicionais do INEB, unidade onde desenvolvo a actividade de investigação, e do Centro de Reabilitação de Gaia. A Emília Mendes, técnica de ortoprótesia, tem uma motivação muito forte para fazer avançar os projectos. O meu colega Sérgio Cunha foi e continua a ser uma ajuda preciosa no desenvolvimento tecnológico. De realçar também os ex-alunos que se dedicaram de corpo e alma ao projecto ANDAR que lhes propus para a conclusão da sua licenciatura, a Diana Viegas, o Carlos Cunha e o Paulo Diniz. Foi o trabalho de equipa que deu muito bons resultados em termos tecnológicos. Neste momento, tenho acompanhado com todo o interesse o trabalho da equipa do MIETE e julgo que mais uma vez em equipa, agora numa perspectiva de criação de negócio, este trabalho irá dar bons resultados. A metodologia parece-me estar bastante focada nos aspectos importantes do problema e bem adaptada para o âmbito das tecnologias e da avaliação do seu potencial de comercialização. De realçar a formação que está a ser dada aos alunos do MIETE, pelo que pude constatar permite alcançar com sucesso os objectivos pretendidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Na sua opinião, esta colaboração está a dar bons resultados? Quais as suas expectativas? Ser-lhe-ia possível enumerar dois ou três pontos positivos e negativos desta colaboração?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MVC: &lt;/span&gt;Sem dúvida que sim. Em parte devido ao tema ou âmbito do projecto, mas principalmente devido ao envolvimento, esforço e dedicação da equipa do MIETE que as expectativas de concretização de negócio têm vindo a aumentar. Há neste momento muito boas perspectivas de se avançar com um empreendimento de base tecnológica e com um apoio e interesse institucionais fortes. Como pontos positivos, a iniciativa de um curso de empreendorismo tecnológico com estas características vem facilitar a ligação entre as áreas da tecnologia e comercial e estabelecer uma ponte para a transferência de tecnologia. Gostaria também de referir o bom entendimento que existe entre todos os envolvidos e a forma como se têm resolvido e ultrapassado alguns obstáculos. Alguns pontos que julgo merecerem especial atenção para desenvolvimento futuro será a abordagem a entidades externas à Faculdade e o seu enquadramento dentro dos objectivos do curso. Por vezes poderá ser difícil delimitar e até explicar entre o que constitui um estudo no âmbito do mestrado e o que passa a estar no foro de um desenvolvimento de negócio, mas sei que já houve esforços nesse sentido. Talvez fosse também útil incluir, se é que já não está, uma formação de cariz mais tecnológica relacionada com as diferentes fases de desenvolvimento de produto ou serviço de modo a ser mais fácil aos alunos dialogar com os tecnólogos, e mais uma vez delimitar bem as competências de cada interveniente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/span&gt; Pode desvendar um pouco qual a proposta de valor da sua&lt;br /&gt;tecnologia?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MVC:&lt;/span&gt; A tecnologia que estamos a propôr consiste num dispositivo portátil de baixo custo para avaliação e análise da marcha ou locomoção humana. Tem inúmeras aplicações práticas na área da saúde, reabilitação ou desporto, como por exemplo, na profilaxia do pé-diabético, na caracterização da marcha de uma pessoa amputada com uma prótese de membro inferior, no registo da mobilidade ou locomoção de um indivíduo ou na avaliação de desempenho de um atleta. Em termos de mercado, as tecnologias actualmente existentes visam uma utilização que se confina a laboratórios de análise de marcha, salas de fisioterapia ou ginásios. O dispositivo que propomos poderá acompanhar o paciente no seu quotidiano e actividade normal e registar, por um período de vários dias, a mobilidade e locomoção do seu portador e as condições em que este as realiza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Opinião no BLOG: "Smart Countries"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Motivação:&lt;/span&gt; A edição especial da NEWSWEEK DEC05/JAN06 "The Knowledge Revolution" edita um artigo de Thomas L. Friedman entitulado "The Exhausting Race for Ideas". No âmbito deste artigo é citado Sir John Rose, chief executive of Rolls-Royce: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In the future we will speak less and less about "developed, developing and underdeveloped countries", and more and more about "smart, smarter and smartest" countries&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/PauloSantos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/PauloSantos.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na minha opinião "Smarter Countries" serão aqueles, através das suas organizações e cidadãos, desenvolverão capacidades (ou competências) para se tornarem "Global Oportunities Catchers". Era impensável para uma empresa, há poucos anos atrás, enveredar por um processo de internacionalização sem ter alguma dimensão ou uma competência rara. Hoje, no entanto, as ferramentas disponíveis (comunicação, redução de barreiras, alargamento dos mercados, etc.) permitem que comecem a surgir organizações de reduzida dimensão que operam em vários países ("Pocket Multinational"), através da aquisição de competências, financiamento, parcerias não só numa base local mas também em qualquer outro lado do mundo (conceito de "Metanational": &lt;a href="http://www.metanational.net/"&gt;http://www.metanational.net/&lt;/a&gt;). Os países que mais depressa entenderem o fenómeno e melhores soluções descobrirem terão, de certeza, maior capacidade de desenvolvimento.&lt;br /&gt;Somente através de "novas" perspectivas dos cidadãos e organizações, será possível mudar a capacidade de um país, para tal os governos devem (e já é muito), em relação aos cidadãos, promover uma mentalidade que lhes traga um melhor futuro, ou seja, "em vez de lhe darem um peixe, ensiná-los a pescar".&lt;br /&gt;Dois bons exemplos de países que considero "Smart Countries" são o Chile e Israel. Vale a pena estudá-los. [Paulo Santos, MIETE 2004/06]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/TeresaDieguez.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/200/TeresaDieguez.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In a world of so many changes, it is very difficult to predict what the future will be or, being more specific, it is hard to have a good probability of guessing how will be the development of some trends occurring from the past.&lt;br /&gt;Of course there are some methodologies that can help us to be more assertive and with more information about technologies, markets, consumers, and, at the end, more precious with financial matters and investments.&lt;br /&gt;The important is to have the notion that “knowledge” is the key of the development and that this “knowledge” must be shared with the others. Networks raise power, new opportunities and smart communities… [Teresa Dieguez, MIETE 2005/07]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/Carlos.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 10pt 10pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/200/Carlos.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I believe that this sentence is all about innovation. I believe that in the future, the technological competitive advantages will last for smaller and smaller periods of times (companies are already able to “rapidly” replicate other’s technological competitive advantages; the time needed to do it depends mainly on the complexity of the product/service). In this sense, the capacity to offer/explore products or services with more imagination, in new markets, in a more effective manner will make the difference between successful and unsuccessful companies, between leaders and followers.&lt;br /&gt;MIETE poses us, today, with the challenges of tomorrow. Identifying new businesses, supported by new/already existing technologies, in an innovative manner, addressing new markets, etc. is making the exercise necessary to face future business challenges. [Carlos Pinho, MIETE2004/06]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-113380368065848713?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/113380368065848713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17045127&amp;postID=113380368065848713' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/113380368065848713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/113380368065848713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2005/12/uma-parceria-diferenciadora-pernas.html' title='Uma Parceria Diferenciadora. Pernas para &quot;ANDAR&quot; &amp; Opinião no BLOG: &quot;Smart Countries&quot;'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17045127.post-112748894920482065</id><published>2005-11-04T13:00:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-04T15:47:59.370Z</updated><title type='text'>Tecnologia &amp; Empreendedorismo, Combinação de Sinergias na FEUP</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/profCarlosCosta.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/profCarlosCosta.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;O Professor Carlos Costa, Director da FEUP, é docente no Departamento de Engenharia Química da FEUP e acompanhou o MIETE desde o seu nascimento em Julho de 2004.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Sr. Professor Carlos Costa, muito obrigado pela disponibilidade para esta breve entrevista. Em 2004 deu o seu apoio a este projecto que então arranca em parceria com a FEP e com a EGP. Desde então já passou um ano lectivo e teve oportunidade de presenciar os resultados obtidos em Julho passado. Estaremos no bom caminho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CC:&lt;/b&gt; A iniciativa visava estruturar na forma de pós-graduação a apropriação/desenvolvimento de conhecimentos, capacidades e atitudes necessárias ao empreendedorismo, usando um modelo testado e, simultaneamente, permitindo avançar no sentido da prototipagem comercial e do eventual spin-off de produtos/ processos/ serviços maioritariamente oriundos do sistema de I&amp;D da FEUP.&lt;br /&gt;Neste sentido penso que a experiência deste primeiro ano foi muito frutuosa e induzirá melhoramentos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Na sua perspectiva quais são as mais-valias para os alunos? Que horizontes é que se lhes abrem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CC:&lt;/b&gt; Para os alunos, e para além da apreensão de conhecimentos, capacidades e atitudes, num ambiente de desenvolvimento dos seus trabalhos que me parece próximo do ideal, o produto do seu próprio trabalho pode concerteza constituir um instrumento decisivo para iniciarem uma actividade empresarial de base tecnológica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Na sua opinião em que áreas é que os conhecimentos adquiridos no MIETE podem ser potenciados?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CC:&lt;/b&gt; Genericamente na área do empreendedorismo entendido aqui quer na criação autónoma de empresas, quer na de agente de mudança em empresas quer ainda na inovação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Qual o papel que este Mestrado pode desempenhar na FEUP?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CC:&lt;/b&gt; Terá um papel fundamental na dinamização de outras formas/aprendizagens ligadas ao empreendedorismo como p.ex. na ajuda à criação de empresas do tipo "life style" e nos programas de "wake up" destinados a alunos de graduação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Qual o benfício que o MIETE poderá ter no aumento da competitividade do Porto-região na área da inovação e empreendedorismo e, de uma forma mais abrangente, qual o papel que o MIETE pode desempenhar na nossa sociedade?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CC:&lt;/b&gt; De uma forma geral o MIETE permite a formação de "empreendedores", sendo que também contribui para a criação directa de empresas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/1600/profSergioCunha.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1538/1634/320/profSergioCunha.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;O Professor Sérgio Reis Cunha é docente no Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e Computadores da FEUP. Disponibilizou no ano lectivo 2004/05 os resultados do seu trabalho de investigação a uma equipa do MIETE.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Muito obrigado pela disponibilidade para esta breve entrevista. Pode dar a sua opinião sobre a experiência pessoal como investigador e tecnólogo em colaboração com uma equipa de desenvolvimento de negócio?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SRC:&lt;/b&gt; Considero esta experiência muito positiva, independentemente dos resultados finais que venham a ser atingidos a nível de concretização de um negócio associado à ideia que propus. Fiquei, desde o início, sensibilizado com o convite que tive. O entusiasmo da equipa entretanto formada foi e está a ser contagiante. A junção das duas perspectivas (a minha voltada para a tecnologia; a da equipa do MIETE voltada para o negócio) é um passo imprescindível para tornar uma ideia num negócio. Com efeito, das múltiplas discussões e estudos de cenários, a ideia original já sofreu ajustes por forma a compatibilizar-se com o mercado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BOLG:&lt;/b&gt; Como surgiu aderiu à ideia de ceder os resultados do seu trabalho de investigação a uma equipa do MIETE?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SRC:&lt;/b&gt; Partiu de um convite endereçado pelo estimado colega João José. Devo dizer que este convite surgiu mesmo na hora “H”: sob o ponto de vista técnico este trabalho já estava no seu final. O passo seguinte é, portanto, efectuar uma formatação para melhor adequação ao mercado. Visto que desde a sua génese foi pensado com vista a ser realmente explorado, respondi pronta e afirmativamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Há mais pessoas envolvidas? Tem acompanhado o trabalho da equipa do MIETE que está a desenvolver o plano de negócios para a sua tecnologia? Do que lhe foi dado a conhecer sobre a metodologia TEC, qual a sua opinião?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SRC:&lt;/b&gt; Há mais pessoas envolvidas: saliento o Sérgio Rui Silva, que meteu mãos à obra desde o início e foi dos primeiros a acreditar num desenvolvimento comercial deste trabalho. Tenho, naturalmente, acompanhado a equipa do MIETE. Pude observar os métodos de trabalho associados à metodologia TEC que estão a estudar, para já aplicados a um estudo de mercado. Achei muito interessante, mas julgo que o melhor ainda está para vir, com o desenvolvimento do plano de negócio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Na sua opinião, esta colaboração está a dar bons resultados? Quais as suas expectativas? Ser-lhe-ia possível enumerar dois ou três pontos positivos e negativos desta colaboração?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SRC:&lt;/b&gt; Disso já não tenho dúvidas. Com efeito, já tirei um conjunto de conclusões relevantes sobre este potencial negócio graças a esta cooperação. Relativamente a expectativas, julgo ainda ser prudente colocar o coração ao largo. No entanto, tenho indicadores muito favoráveis no sentido de se avançar para a concretização de um empreendimento comercial. Pontos positivos há vários. Começo pela própria ideia de se criar um núcleo de dedicado ao estudo metódico de assuntos relacionados com o empreendedorismo, e em particular associado a projectos de base tecnológica, dentro de uma escola de Engenharia. A presença e acompanhamento por parte de especialistas externos à casa também é muito bom. Gostaria de enfatizar ainda a forte motivação que pude constatar tanto nos alunos da equipa deste projecto como nos dos outros projectos. Como ponto a desenvolver, pude notar em alguns momentos alguma tendência excessiva para se tentar subjugar os aspectos de domínio de tecnlogia (know-how) a um enquadramento demasiado comercial. Acredito que em projectos de base tecnológica o know-how é o elemento que faz a diferença e, embora possa ser adquirido, tal não acontece à velociade com que evoluem os negócios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;MIETE-BLOG:&lt;/b&gt; Pode desvendar um pouco qual a proposta de valor da sua tecnologia?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;SRC:&lt;/b&gt; Trata-se de um sistema para fazer levantamentos fotográficos a partir de aeronaves ligeiras. Visa o mercado da fotografia aérea ortorectificada e da geração de modelos digitais de terreno no segmento da escalas locais, ou seja, muito elevada resolução. Sendo baseado em componentes de tecnologia de valor comercial menor que os métodos actualmente empregues e sendo mais flexível em termos de operação, permite oferecer preços sem concorrência neste segmento. Para o cliente, o valor reside no aparecimento de um produto a uma escala que anteriormente apenas era possível a preços proibitivos. Para os proponentes, o valor reside no know-how adquirido ao longo de anos de estudo e testes nesta área, que cobre especialidades que vão desde a navegação de precisão, passando pela electrónica e processamento de dados até à aeronáutica, que permite obter os resultados desejados à custa de componentes de custo compatível.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17045127-112748894920482065?l=miete-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/112748894920482065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17045127/posts/default/112748894920482065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://miete-blog.blogspot.com/2005/11/tecnologia-empreendedorismo-combinao.html' title='Tecnologia &amp; Empreendedorismo, Combinação de Sinergias na FEUP'/><author><name>João José Pinto Ferreira</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
