Portugal: an increasingly open and
global technology-based economy
João Falcão e Cunha
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Good Afternoon!
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Agenda
• MyShortCV
• Examples from Portugal
• Conclusions
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Portugal
1911-06-30
2020? [© 2006 BBDO Portugal]
1139? / 1143 - 1185
Year of independence: 1143
Under Spanish Rule: 1580-1640
Royal family in Brazil: 1808-1821
Year of EU entry: 1986
Total area: 92 072 km²
Population: 10.4 million
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandeira_de_Portugal
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Portuguese Economy
GDP by sector
Labor force by occupation
Agriculture:
2,8%
10,0%
Industry:
25,0%
30,0%
Services:
72,2%
* 2008 (est.)
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60,0%
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Industry ► Manufacturing
** 2007 (est.)
CIA – The World Fact Book, 2009-12-03
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/po.html
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Porto – Portugal
View of Porto riverside
Porto
FC Porto
Port Wine
Google Earth
The School of Engineering
João Falcão e Cunha
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University of Porto - School of Engineering
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15 Schools
60 graduate programs
120 master programs
100 doctoral programs
2200 lecturers and researchers
1600 administrative staff
27000 students, of which 7500
postgraduate
• One of the Top 20 in RI3
Ibero-American Ranking of Universities and
R&D Institutes http://investigacion.universia.net
• One of the Top 500 in the Shanghai
Jiao Tong Univ. Ranking of
Universities
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9 Departments
10 / 25 graduate / master programs
12 doctoral programs
450 lecturers and researchers
250 administrative staff
7000 students (2500 postgraduate)
Member of CESAER
Conference of European Schools for Advanced
Engineering Education and Research
www.cesaer.org
• Member of ERCIM
European Research Consortium on Informatics
and Mathematics www.ercim.eu
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Engineering is …
• The process of applying and developing Science and
Technology in order to solve people’s problems in innovative
ways under resource constraints, in particular time and
money.
• «The best qualification for innovation is a basic training in
Engineering. Engineers are taught that design matters, that
most things are part of a system in which everything interacts,
that their job is to worry about trade-offs, and that they must
continually be measuring the robustness of the systems they
set up. Such a frame of mind fosters innovation. It may be no
coincidence that many of the greatest corporate leaders in
America, Europe and Japan, past and present, trained first as
engineers»
Michael Hammer: Re-Engineering the Corporation
Special Report on Business Innovation
The Economist, April 24 (p.77)
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MyStory
• Porto 0.5, Goa 1.5, Porto 4.5, Mozambique 2.0, Porto
2.0, Angola 2.0, Santa Cruz 0.5, Porto 9.0, Cranfield 1.0,
Porto 0.5, London 4.0, Porto 8.0, London 1.0, Porto, …,
Electrical and Computer Engineering – FEUP
1983-84 Management Science – Cranfield University
1985-89 Computing Science – Imperial College London
1990-… FEUP – Portugal
1979-83
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Initiatives (with many colleagues!)
GIST project  OPT lda. www.opt.pt
1991 Computing Engineering Degree at FEUP
1997 Mercatura lda.
2005 SMSBUS information service
2007 OPT s.a. leaves FEUP
2007 Master in Services Engineering and
Management at FEUP www.fe.up.pt/mesg
2010 IBM Center for Advanced Studies @ FEUP
1989
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GIST  OPT
• Jorge Pinho de Sousa, Um Sistema de Apoio à Decisão para a Elaboração de
Horários de Viaturas e Tripulações em Serviços de Transportes Colectivos Urbanos,
MSc.1986.
• Jorge Freire de Sousa, Desenvolvimento de um Módulo Interativo para Geração de
Serviços de Tripulações em Transportes Colectivos Urbanos, MSc.1988.
• José António Vasconcelos Ferreira, Optimal Control of Discrete - Time Systems with
Application, MSc.1988.
• José Luís Cabral de Moura Borges: Sistema de Apoio à Geração de Escalas de
Pessoal no Planeamento Operacional de Sistemas de Transportes
Colectivos,MSc.1994.
• Maria Teresa Galvão Dias: Genetic Algorithms Applied to the Crew Scheduling
Problem, MSc.1995.
• Dinis Manuel Alves da Mota Correia Paes: Estudo da Aplicação do CASE Oracle
Designer/2000 ao Projecto GIST, MSc.1999.
• Rita Mafalda Teixeira Estácio: Plano de Negócios da OPT, OPT – Optimização e
Planeamento de Transportes SA Lic.1999.
• Maria Teresa Galvão Dias: A New Approach to the Bus Driver Scheduling Problem
using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms, PhD, 2005.
• José António de Vasconcelos Ferreira: Sistema de Apoio à Decisão para
Escalamento de Tripulantes no Transporte Colectivo Urbano, PhD, 2005.
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GIST  OPT
GIST consortium (1990)
University of Lisbon
University of Porto
STCP
Grupo
Barraqueiro
Horários
do Funchal
Vimeca
R&D Project
with support from
(1992)
Commercial Product
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(1997)
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Representação gráfica do horário de comboios entre Paris e Lyon: gráfico original de E. J. Marey, La
Méthode Graphique, Paris 1885, p.20 (cf. [Tufte 1983], p.31).
Coordenação de Cores: original de Yumi Takahashi e Ikuyo Shibukawa, Color Coordination,
Tokyo 1985, p.114-115 (cf. [Tufte 1990], p.33).
Maria Teresa Galvão Dias: A New Approach to the Bus Driver Scheduling
Problem using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms, PhD, 2005.
SMSBUS
- 40.000 messages a day during initial month of free
usage (4.000, after 0.20€ cost).
- 2005: 1st prize IV Fórum Telecom
BUSMAP
“Public Services of Information”.
- 2000 bus stops, in Porto, Portugal.
- 2006: 1st prize Deloitte/Diário Económico
“Electronic Services”.
From London 1980’s to Brazil
2000’s
Meeting of waters: rivers “Negro” and “Solimões”
Meeting of waters: rivers “Negro” and “Solimões”
Some research side effects…
FEUP  Univ. Rel. with Brazil
MOBILE Master Students
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FEUP  Other UR with Brazil
• Doctorate Exchanges with direct support
from CNPq (“NSF” from Brazil)
• ERASMUS MUNDUS with over 30
Universities
• Santander Bank grants
• Agreements with over 50 Brazilian
Universities and Companies
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Innovation in Portugal
GSM Service Forecast in Portugal,
1993
500.000
450.000
400.000
350.000
300.000
TELECEL
250.000
200.000
EUROFONE
150.000
100.000
50.000
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Previsão da dimensão do mercado português de telemóveis, 1993 (Rui Campos Guimarães, 1999).
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Recently…2005
Mimo TMN
1995
10 000 000
8 000 000
6 000 000
4 000 000
2 000 000
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1993
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1997
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Today: 15 Million in Portugal
http://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1010994
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Good Engineering has Long Lasting
Emotional Impact
1889
1886
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
1877
Théophile Seyrig
Via Verde “Green Way”
www.viaverde.pt (PT only)
• Motorway toll collection (1991 open system; 1995
closed system); universal in Portugal, up to 120
km/h
• Used Q-Free, from a Norwegian company
• Failed attempt to collect annual fee (40€) for
other services
• Petrol stations
• Car parks
• McDrive McDonald
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experts in precision
International demand for machinery made in Portugal (moulds,
electronics, automotive components, pneumatic and hydraulic
equipment, etc.) continues to grow and assist the development of
countries throughout the world.
Did you know that machinery is Portugal’s No. 1 export?
design and engineering
Did you know that Portugal is a state-of-the-art point of reference and
reliability in the moulds industry?
Samsonite, Nokia, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche are just some of the
names that rely on Portuguese talent and engineering.
new generation
fabrics
Did you know that 26 million
Americans sleep on
Portuguese sheets?
And that Portugal leads Europe
in home textiles and is the third
largest exporter in the world?
Portuguese brands stand out
because of their sheer
innovation: intelligent fabrics,
fabrics that are fire-retardant,
anti-bacterial or have
therapeutic and hydrating
properties.
shoes of the future
Did you know that Portugal leads the world in footwear technology?
That it is Europe’s No. 3 exporter? That it invented bullet-proof shoes?
Ninety million people in the world choose Portuguese shoes. Steven
Spielberg is one of them: the Portuguese brand Swear supplied the
shoes for Star Wars. And Fly London, Yucca and Aerosoles just
keep growing.
hidden leadership
Portugal is acknowledged as being
the world’s leading cork producer.
But there are also some lesser
known areas in which it leads.
Did you know that Number Five has
captured 75% of the world market for
self-identification? And have you
heard of Altitude (leading supplier of
technology for call centres and
CRM), and what about Chipidea
(world leader in the design of analog
solutions that provide the interface
between digital technology and the
real world)?
light and design
Did you know that the Portuguese company Vista Alegre
/Atlantis is one of the 10 main porcelain producing groups
in the world?
Other major brands such as Spal, Topázio, Cutipol or Sátira
offer creativity and design for a happier home.
technology for life
Beating incurable diseases or preserving stem cells for
regenerative medicine are the everyday concerns of
companies such as Biotecnol, Alfama (winner of the
European start-up prize in 2005), Crioestaminal, Medinfar
/Cytothera, Biocant and IBET. Others are developing new
pharmaceutical solutions – companies such as Bial and
Cipan. All these companies are working to achieve a better
life – surely they deserve to be known?
passion for construction
From Asia to America, from Africa to Europe, for centuries Portugal
construction skills have presented challenges, made their mark and
endured. Do you know how? With Portuguese architects, engineers
and materials. The airport on Madeira and the Ponte da Amizade
on Macau are just recent examples.
navigating – always pioneers
Nelo is one of the best-known kayak brands in the world. First in
Sydney, and then more recently in Athens an Peking, its kayaks
helped several teams and athletes to win medals at the Olympic
Games. They are Portuguese in design and production and their
technology revolutionised standards for top competition in this
field.
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Efacec: Markets
Sales Evolution
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EXTERNAL
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INTERNAL
MARKET
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2007
2008
2009 (P)
Conclusion
Portugal is an increasingly
open and global
technology-based economy
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2001
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese writer and poet, 1888-1935
“To win we need three things we can define:
to know how to work,
to follow opportunities and
to create relationships.
We also need something else, that we find difficult to
define and, lacking a better name, we call luck.”
“Para vencer — material ou imaterialmente — três coisas definíveis são precisas: saber
trabalhar, aproveitar oportunidades, e criar relações. O resto pertence ao elemento indefinível,
mas real, a que, à falta de melhor nome, se chama sorte.”
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Thank You!
Flor do Pau Brasil. – © 2006 Francisco Guimarães