INNOVATE™ Oeiras

Innovations of the World

INNOVATE™ Oeiras

Oeiras has been a desirable place to live and explore since 1208. Its natural beauty and agreeable seaside climate remain, and today, the municipality boasts the highest GDP per capita in Portugal, not to mention the country’s highest concentration of individuals with higher education. Winning though they may be, these statistics do little to illuminate the innovation ecosystem in this coastal gem. That’s where INNOVATE™ Oeiras comes in. This premium tech-enabled coffee-table book highlights innovators of all industries and niches. Participants are researched and handpicked for inclusion in INNOVATE™ Oeiras, which ensures an accurate depiction of the municipality that’s been making history since its inception. 

In addition to a hardcover coffee-table book, INNOVATE™ Oeiras is published as an e-book, take a look at the individual stories of innovators and innovation enablers below. 

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Innovators

Featured Innovators

Grundfos

We Develop Water Solutions For The World

Grundfos Is One Of The World’s Leading Water Technology Companies. We Are Committed To Pioneering Solutions To The World’s Water And Climate Challenges And Improving The Quality Of Life For People.   Pumps are our business. We  are a pump company connecting with millions and millions of people every day, and we set the standard in terms of...

MERCK

MERCK - Curiosity Is In Our DNA

Curiosity Is In Our DNA

At Merck, we are curious, we constantly ask questions and seek out answers. Why? Because we believe breakthroughs begin with curiosity and it’s this curiosity that allows us to introduce ourselves as a vibrant science and technology company able to make a positive difference in millions of people’s lives every...

THE MUNICIPALITY OF OEIRAS ARTS AND CULTURE

THE MUNICIPALITY OF OEIRAS ARTS AND CULTURE-Oeiras

Oeiras, Facing Its Future

In recent decades, Oeiras has seen some very significant changes. Namely, the housing qualification cycle – Oeiras was the first municipality in the country to eliminate shanties, providing decent housing to all residents. The cycle of attracting business, science and innovation is also worth mentioning; Oeiras is home to the...

ACCENTURE

ACCENTURE- Innovation Is A Long And Complex Process. It All Starts With An Idea That Evolves Until It Is Implemented

Innovation Is A Long And Complex Process. It All Starts With An Idea That Evolves Until It Is Implemented, Ensuring Value Creation. Throughout This Process, It Is Necessary To Guarantee All The Essential Capabalities To Put Each Step Into Practice

Accenture is a global professional services organization, a leader in digital, cloud, and security capabilities. Combining an unparalleled experience with a strong specialization in more than 40 sectors of activity, it offers a wide range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology, and operations, supported by the largest worldwide...

OEIRAS

OEIRAS- The Municipality

The Municipality

Today, Oeiras is a municipality of reference, the result of four decades of detailed, thoughtful, avant-garde planning based on the unique and broad vision of Isaltino Morais. A man who became Mayor in 1985 and who, from the first moment, outlined a strategy that extended beyond the four years of...

Alcon Portugal

Driving Innovation To Help People See Brilliantly
Impulsionar A Inovação Para Ajudar As Pessoas A Ver Brilhantemente

Alcon is the global leader in eye care, dedicated to helping people see brilliantly. With a heritage of more than seven decades, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to improve people’s vision and lives. Our surgical and vision care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people...

Grünenthal Portugal

Grünenthal Portugal - Innovating To Improve The Lives Of People With Chronic Pain

Innovating To Improve The Lives Of People With Chronic Pain

Grünenthal, SA is a subsidiary of Grünenthal GmbH, with a presence in Portugal since 1990, which is dedicated to the marketing of pharmaceutical products and a leader in medicines for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. Our mission is to improve the lives of people living with chronic pain....

RENAULT

RENAULT- Is a Brand With 123 Years Of Existence

Is a Brand With 123 Years Of Existence, Which Has Always Been Distinguished By Its Ability To Innovate, Democratizing Technologies, Making Them Accessible To All

It all started in 1898, when Louis Renault drove his Renault “Voiturette” up Rue Lepic in Paris with astonishing ease. That ease came from one of his inventions, the first gearbox. Since then, this has been Renault’s DNA, to innovate and democratize the use of technologies that contribute to comfort,...

APIFARMA

APIFARMA-A Longer And Better Life. That Is Our Compromise With The Portuguese People

A Longer And Better Life. That Is Our Compromise With The Portuguese People

The mission of the pharmaceutical industry is to further innovation and the development of therapies that meet existing needs in terms of treatments and the prevention of new diseases, and to make available medications that constitute an improvement in the health and life quality of the population. APIFARMA, the Portuguese...

CREDIBOM

CREDIBOM-Working Everyday In The Interest Of Our Customers And Society

Working Everyday In The Interest Of Our Customers And Society

As part of the Crédit Agricole Group – one of the largest European banking groups – Credibom is a bank specialized in consumer credit and a leader in Portugal, particularly in automotive financing. Established in 1995, Credibom focus is to adapt its products and services to the needs of its...

Palaceo

Palaceo - We Are A Group Of Companies

We Are A Group Of Companies, Within Several Emerging Areas Of The Creative Industry, Our Activity Is Based On A Multidisciplinary Of Businesses, Such As Entertainment, Tourism, Design, Digital Marketing, Computer Technology, Video And Music. These Businesses Operate With A Common Premise: A Complete And Global Offer Of Services, Achieved Through Close Cooperation Between Companies.

Having been based in the municipality of Oeiras for some years, in 2017, due to spatial limitations resulting from our growth and consequent creation of new jobs, we sought to unite with those in similar areas of entrepreneurship, in order to seek spaces for rent. Because of our strong, coworking...

AQUÁRIO VASCO DA GAMA

Heart And Science For All Generations/Ciência Com Coração Para Todas As Gerações

Vasco da Gama Aquarium belongs to the extended family of the first public aquariums created around the world, between the late 19th century and the 1st World War. From this first “boom,” most of them were closed or converted into modern aquariums. Built in 1898, the Aquarium celebrates 400 years...

Artsana Portugal

Artsana Portugal - An Empire Of Love

An Empire Of Love

Artsana Portugal is a subsidiary of the Italian Artsana Group which in our country represents leading brands such as Chicco, Control, PIC Solution, and additional emerging brands like Recaro, Boppy and Neobaby. Chicco is the company’s most iconic brand, and its history helps us understand the brand’s DNA and the...

IMPRESA

IMPRESA-Our Values: Commitment / Cooperation / Integrity / Innovation / Excellence

Our Values: Commitment / Cooperation / Integrity / Innovation / Excellence

IMPRESA was founded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, one-time prime minister and founding member of Portuguese SocialDemocratic Party (PSD). The journey started with Expresso: the first democratic weekly newspaper published during the dictatorship regime.   Now its portfolio of brands are the country’s leader in sales. Impresa then escalated with SIC,...

ALMADESIGN

ALMADESIGN - Design Driven Innovation

Design Driven Innovation

Almadesign’s goal is to create innovative products that will enhance people’s lives by contributing to their sustainability and success. We are a design studio with core competencies in the design of products, services and design management, structuring product development methodologies and implementing industrial innovation processes. We drive innovation through design,...

STEP AHEAD CONSULTING

STEP AHEAD CONSULTING- Make It Happen

Make It Happen

Born in the year of the millennium, Step Ahead Consulting, headquartered in Quinta da Fonte, in Oeiras, quickly asserted itself in two aspects: Despite a very strong presence in Angola, the company remained committed to several outstanding national projects, such as the Nationality Process, and other management projects, in clients...

Madrid Innovation Communities – Madrid’s First Wave Coffee Culture

La Primera Ola de la Cultura del Café en Madrid – Innovations Of The World

Madrid Innovation Communities – Madrid has bounced back from the early 2010s with entrepreneurship and innovation, challenging even the most essential traditions including how coffee is processed, consumed, and loved. Only seven years ago, Madrid’s coffee scene was nothing to shout about, but over the last decade, the ‘torrefacto’ norm...

WE ARE CISCO

WE ARE CISCO- Cisco Helps Seize The Opportunities Of Tomorrow By Proving That Amazing Things Can Happen When You Connect The Unconnected

Cisco Helps Seize The Opportunities Of Tomorrow By Proving That Amazing Things Can Happen When You Connect The Unconnected

An integral part of our DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships, working together to identify our customers’ needs and provide solutions that fuel their success. We have preserved this keen focus on solving business challenges since our founding in 1984. Len Bosack and wife Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford...

ASTELLAS FARMA PORTUGAL

ASTELLAS FARMA PORTUGAL-WE LIVE THE ASTELLAS WAY

WE LIVE THE ASTELLAS WAY

Astellas Farma Portugal is an affiliate of Astellas Pharma Inc., based in Tokyo, and globally one of the companies most focused on the investigation of innovative pharmaceutical products.   Research and Development are at the center of everything we do, and this not only drives our work today, but also...

JOAQUIM CHAVES SAÚDE (JCS)

JOAQUIM CHAVES SAÚDE (JCS)-INNOVATION TO PROMOTE HEALTH

INNOVATION TO PROMOTE HEALTH

Joaquim Chaves Saúde (JCS) is a Portuguese group operating in the health sector since 1959, which participates with great skill and quality in the progress of medicine, always maintaining the highest standards while providing customers with the best healthcare. Dr. Joaquim Chaves Dr. Joaquim Chaves (founder of the current JCS...

ALTRONIX

ALTRONIX ALTRONIX IS A TECHNOLOGICAL COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING LABELLING

ALTRONIX IS A TECHNOLOGICAL COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING LABELLING, BARCODE AND RFID SOLUTIONS IN DIFFERENT MARKETS, SUCH AS HEALTHCARE, PUBLIC SECTOR, LOGISTICS, TRADE AND INDUSTR

Due to our scope of action, we have a key role in the digital transformation of more than 30,000 companies and institutions in Portugal and abroad, and innovation is part of our DNA!   Since the very beginning in 2004, what distinguishes us as a company is undoubtedly the human...

Carolina Almeida Cruz

Carolina Almeida Cruz Co-Founder Of Sapana.org And Entrepreneur @C-More – Beyond The Obvious I believe that I’m going to change the world. I love the sea, my biological family and beyond, my team of leaders of change and above all I belong to the world and the world is mine....

Desafio Global Events & Activation Experience

Desafio Global Events & Activation Experience The Most Awarded Portuguese Events Agency And One Of The Most Awarded In The Corporate Events Sector In Europe.

The Most Awarded Portuguese Events Agency And One Of The Most Awarded In The Corporate Events Sector In Europe.

Desafio Global – Events & Activation Experience is an event organisation company that combines creativity with high production capacity, organising an average of 200 events per year and brand activation campaigns for the main Portuguese brands. Desafio Global has been operating for 20 years and has won 128 awards to...

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca - At AstraZeneca Portugal

At AstraZeneca Portugal, We Breathe Innovation

Innovation is part of the daily lives of the AstraZeneca teams and this is reflected not only in the research development of the most advanced therapies, but also through the projects we design and implement and through the company’s unique approach and positioning. With sustainability in its DNA, AstraZeneca designs...

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The Publisher

Lígia Neves

Lígia Neves is the publishing partner for INNOVATE™ Oeiras. A Humanistic Professional Master Coach & Humanistic Professional Coach Trainer – IHCOS®, she is passionate about life and personal development, and she has dedicated the last 9 years to this area, founding Dare To Be Great in 2011, a Coaching Company that sees the world as place... click to read more

Pedro Coelho

Pedro Coelho is the publishing partner for INNOVATE™ Oeiras. Originally from Portugal, he recently arrived in Orlando, with an entrepreneurial spirit that characteristic of all his endeavors. While still studying for a degree in Architecture at the Lisbon Technical Institute of Lisbon University, Pedro created Addsolutions, a communication, branding, and events agency that has been... click to read more

The Publisher

Lígia Neves

Lígia Neves is the publishing partner for INNOVATE™ Oeiras. A Humanistic Professional Master Coach & Humanistic Professional Coach Trainer – IHCOS®, she is passionate about life and personal development, and she has dedicated the last 9 years to this area, founding Dare To Be Great in 2011, a Coaching Company that sees the world as place... click to read more

Pedro Coelho

Pedro Coelho is the publishing partner for INNOVATE™ Oeiras. Originally from Portugal, he recently arrived in Orlando, with an entrepreneurial spirit that characteristic of all his endeavors. While still studying for a degree in Architecture at the Lisbon Technical Institute of Lisbon University, Pedro created Addsolutions, a communication, branding, and events agency that has been... click to read more

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