Lab2Market@Técnico is a nine-week innovation training and acceleration programme designed to support lecturers, researchers, and doctoral and master’s students in validating market potential and identifying the most appropriate paths for commercialising the projects and technologies they have developed in the laboratories.
We invite you to be part of this transformative experience, where you can acquire skills in entrepreneurship, innovation and value proposition definition, right up to the preparation of presentations (pitches) ready for investors.
At the end of the Programme, the António Brandão Vasconcelos Award will be given to the team whose project stands out the most in the various evaluation criteria identified in the regulations for each edition of the programme.

Why take part?

By joining Lab2Market@Técnico, you will:

• Explore the market potential of your technology or research.
• Acquire practical skills in entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Interact with experts from the entrepreneurial ecosystem, including mentors, other entrepreneurial teams and investors.
• Make a difference: can your research become a real solution and reach the market?
• Win a 5000€ award

Market assessment, building a value proposition, how to present the project to investors, identifying and contacting potential partners and clients are some of the answers your team can find by taking part in this programme.

Launch session

To kick off the 2026 edition, we will be holding a launch session:

• Date: February 3 de de 2026
• Time : 11h30am
• Local: Tecnico Innovation Center
• Advance registration required at: https://ist.pt/Lab2Market26Launchigsession

Neste evento, contaremos com a participação de ex-participantes do programa, que irão partilhar as suas experiências e aprendizagens.