Horizontal Anchor Project – Technology Transfer

In Portugal, and specifically in the health sector, the dynamics of technology transfer - whether between academia and industry or between start-ups and large companies - remain below their full potential. The implementation of a technology transfer investment culture, supported by favourable conditions for the protection and valorisation of intellectual property, will inevitably lead to greater knowledge utilisation, resulting in improvements in population health and well-being, as well as new opportunities for the country’s economic development.

The “Horizontal Anchor Project – Technology Transfer”, promoted by Health Cluster Portugal (HCP) and supported by QREN, aimed to significantly increase the volume of technology transfer in Portugal and from Portugal abroad, between universities and industry and among companies, in the health sector.

To achieve this, the project implemented actions focused on:

- Raising awareness, providing information, and offering training for health value chain actors and policy-makers on technology transfer and intellectual/industrial property protection and valorisation.

- Enhancing networking among actors along the national health value chain.

- Defining guidelines, recommendations, and best practices, based on international experience, for technology transfer and intellectual/industrial property protection in the health sector.

- Facilitating access for health value chain actors to high-quality services in intellectual/industrial property protection and valorisation.

- Mapping the national scientific and technological offer in the health sector and promoting it globally.