The great Leap abroad

Portugal has kept up with the increasing evolution of the information technologies and electronics, with young and dynamic companies, founded as spinovers from R&D Centers.

The Research and Development carried out in Portugal affects the daily life of the Portuguese people. Examples of sucess stories are the integrated system of automatic toll payment in highways, implemented over the whole country (Via Verde), the ATMs network service from the company SIBS, as well as applications in the fields of e-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence, among many others.

Developing products and solutions of great added value and excellent competitive advantages, some companies have been able to impose their products at the level of other highly praised companies worldwide and became solution suppliers for NASA, CISCO, Microsoft or INTEL, the main Japanese Banks, as well as railway networks or aviation companies in Europe and the USA.

Source: ICEP