Belfast, September 2010 The Information Society and ITC in Portugal Conference Doing Business in Portugal.

Belfast, September 2010

The Information Society and ITC in PortugalConference “Doing Business in Portugal”

Index

► Portugal – Innovation in IT

► An Attractive Market

► Believing in the Information Society

► International Partners

► The Portuguese ITC Market

► Solutions and Portuguese Companies

► Portugal – a Network of Reference

Portugal – Innovation in IT

Portugal - Innovation in IT

► Portugal was the first country in Europe to have geographical infra-structures on the web. Portugal Digital, exhibited at Expo-98, allowing visitors to fly over Portugal and consult geo-reference databases well before Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth.

► 3.5% of the 1.5 billion people that use pre-paid mobiles, are using Portuguese technology from the PT Inovação.

► Portugal is the pioneer in electronic systems for the management of motorways. The “Via Verde” (automatic on-line payment system) processes more that 500 thousand daily transactions on tolls, petrol stations and car parks.

► If you are one of the 3 million passengers that use the London Underground, or the train in the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark or Finland, you are using Portuguese technology. The planning and management of these resources are developed by Siscog.

Portugal – Innovation in IT

Did you know?

► In 2007 the Schengen Agreement was made available to a further 8 countries joining the EU. The suppression of immigration controls were going to be postponed due to problems connected with the Schengen Information System, however, the Portuguese company, Critical Software, found a transitional solution, SISone4all.

► Technology from the Portuguese company ISA has increased the logistic and energy efficiency of airline companies at the San Sebastian, Valladolid and Reus airports.

► If you need the health services from Saint Lucas Andreas Hospital in Amsterdam, or in the SEARCH centre in Alaska, or in Penang Adventist Hospital in Malaysia or in hundreds of health centres throughout the world, your medical records are processed by Portuguese software created by Alert.

Portugal – Innovation in IT

Did you know?

Portugal – An Attractive Market

Portugal – An Attractive Market

Overseas companies believe in Portugal

Bell Labs

Percentage of Internet users

Believing in the Information Society

26%

87%

91%

97%

6th Form

Higher Education

Student population19th place in the EU 27

5th place in the EU 27

European Average = 67%

10th place in the EU 27

European Average = 89%8th place in the EU 27

European Average = 94%

Secondary education or less

Source: A Sociedade de Informação em Portugal 2008, INE, UMIC,ANACOM, GEPE,GPEARINote: Age range from 16 to 74 considered

International Cooperation

International Cooperation

In 2006 the Portuguese Government started several international partnerships combining Portuguese universities and leading world institutions in the scientific investigations area.

Massachussets Institute of Technology – The MIT Portugal Programme was launched in 2006, focusing on Engineering Systems. In Portugal it involves 6 universiities,6 associated laboratories and 1 state laboratory, also including companies such as VW-Autoeuropa, EADS-CASA and 18 Portuguese companies.

UTAustin|Portugal Programme – Launched in 2007. It includes the creation of an International Virtual Institute, the International Collaboration for Emerging Technologies, CoLab. Involving 15 universities, 3 associated laboratories, 4 science and technology parks and 9 SME’s in Portugal.

Partnerships for the future

Carnegie-Mellon University – The CMU Portugal Programme signed in 2006, for the ITC area. Involves 11 universities, 4 associated laboratories and companies such as: Portugal Telecom, Novabase, Siemens and 15 companies based in the technological area of ITC.

An ambitious programme of Luso-Spanish cooperation in Nano Technologies was initiated and Laboratório Ibérico Internacional de Nanotecnologia in Braga was founded – a project between Portugal and Spain, with activities centred in the nano-science and nano-technology area.

International Cooperation

Partnerships for the future

In the changing process of innovation, the Living Labs are a new institutional way of promoting more interactivity of scientific investigation, technological development and company innovation. Therefore creating ways of validating ideas and experiments of prototypes tested in every day situations by end users. These communities cover, not only SME’s but also large cooperation's such as Nokia, IBM and SAP.

The European network of Living Labs was created in November 2006 and Portugal is the second country of this network with the most Living Labs:

► Madeira Living Lab, Tecnopólo da Madeira

► S. João Madeira Industrial Living Lab, headed by Sanjotec,

► Creative Media Lab

► Rener, from INTELI,

► Living Lab Minho, from Universidade do Minho

► Eco Living Lab, in Chamusca

International Cooperation

Living Labs in Portugal

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International Cooperation

Living Labs in Portugal

The Portuguese ITC Market

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The Portuguese ITC Market

Living Labs in Portugal

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1,629

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No of Individual Companies No of Partnerships Employment

Source: Study on the Software and Computer Services in Portugal, DPPRI, MAOTDR

Software and Computer Services

218,9 294,3 286,2 14,0 65,6 829,41.247,9

x Value of trade in 2007, millions of euros

No of companies, employees and value of trade

The Portuguese ITC Market

Source: Study on the Software and Computer Services in Portugal, DPPRI, MAOTDR

Software and Computer Services

Employment by levels of number of workers

Solutions and Portuguese companies

Solutions and Portuguese companies

…and many others for you to get to know after your visit

Solutions and Portuguese companies

Relevant sectors:Space exploration technologyDefence systems, management and transport controlManagement resources in railway companies; Electronic systems for the management of motorways, Telemetric and urban home automationHealthEducationTelecommunicationsGeo-referencingIntegrated information managementVarious business applicationsTechnology for the property, Trade and Tourism sectorInteractive solutionsIntegrated solution in multimedia communicationSecurityElectronic tradeContact centresPublic information desk systemsNavigationServersElectronic certificationSolution in critical trade areasMedia CentresElectronic Internet platforms

Solutions and Portuguese companies

Portugal – A Network of Reference

► A competitive player in the global technological market

► Nearshore of reference for the installation of service centres and development of sophisticated technologies

► Test market for new solutions and products for the world market

► A Network Country, with 10 million inhabitants, 5 million Portuguese citizens throughout the world, 200 million Portuguese speakers and excellent political and strategic relations with all major areas of the world

► A country with public policies focused on competitive factors and human potential and a mobilized society with new solutions.

► A privileged location for making the most of opportunities that more and more people are discovering and using

Portugal – A Network of Reference

Our vision of Portugal

BERNARDO IVO CRUZ

Thank you

Portuguese Business Development Agency

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