Founded in 1991 as an initiative by the University of Coimbra, Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) – Association for Innovation and Development in Science and Technology – is a non-profit private institution for public benefit. “It promotes innovation and the transfer of technology, establishing the interface between the scientific and technological system and the production sector.”
Mission Statement
Contribute to the transformation of the business environment and organizations in general, promoting a culture of innovation, quality, rigor and entrepreneurship, built on a solid university/enterprise relationship and operating in three fronts that reinforce and complement each other:
•Research and technological development, consultancy and specialized services;
•Business and idea incubation;
•Highly specialized training and dissemination of science and technology.
Research and technological development, consultancy and specialized services
Holds its own technological infrastructures – six Technological Development Laboratories – besides access to a network of researchers from the National RTD System (Sistema Científico e Tecnológico Nacional) , in particular from the University of Coimbra, namely through the Faculty of Science and Technology:
•LED&MAT - Wear, Testing and Materials Laboratory, comprised of two units: UMS – Surface Modifications Unit and UGRAN – Granular Materials Unit.
•LIS - Information technology and Systems Laboratory.
•LAS - Automation and Systems Laboratory, integrating an Industrial Instrumentation Unit.
•LEC - Electroanalysis and Corrosion Laboratory.
•LABGEO - Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory.
•FITOLAB - Phytopathology Laboratory.
Instituto Pedro Nunes
Founded in 1991 as an initiative by the University of Coimbra, Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) – Association for Innovation and Development in Science and Technology – is a non-profit private institution for public benefit. “It promotes innovation and the transfer of technology, establishing the interface between the scientific and technological system and the production sector.”
Mission Statement
Contribute to the transformation of the business environment and organizations in general, promoting a culture of innovation, quality, rigor and entrepreneurship, built on a solid university/enterprise relationship and operating in three fronts that reinforce and complement each other:
•Research and technological development, consultancy and specialized services;
•Business and idea incubation;
•Highly specialized training and dissemination of science and technology.
Research and technological development, consultancy and specialized services
Holds its own technological infrastructures – six Technological Development Laboratories – besides access to a network of researchers from the National RTD System (Sistema Científico e Tecnológico Nacional) , in particular from the University of Coimbra, namely through the Faculty of Science and Technology:
•LED&MAT - Wear, Testing and Materials Laboratory, comprised of two units: UMS – Surface Modifications Unit and UGRAN – Granular Materials Unit.
•LIS - Information technology and Systems Laboratory.
•LAS - Automation and Systems Laboratory, integrating an Industrial Instrumentation Unit.
•LEC - Electroanalysis and Corrosion Laboratory.
•LABGEO - Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory.
•FITOLAB - Phytopathology Laboratory.