Discover your technology’s path to market!

Lab2Market@Técnico is a training programme designed for professors, researchers and PhD students to help validate the market potential of their technologies and projects.
This immersive programme combines practical and theoretical sessions, allowing participants to acquire essential skills in innovation, entrepreneurship and value creation.

In the 2025 edition, we invite you to be part of this transformative experience, where you can acquire skills in entrepreneurship, innovation and value creation, while working to turn your research into a real solution with an impact on the market.

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?

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 2025 edition, we will be holding a launch session:

• Date: 21 January 2025
• Time: 2.30pm
• Local: Civil Engineering Museum, Instituto Superior Técnico
• Registration required: https://ist.pt/Lab2Market25Launchsession

This event will be attended by former participants in the programme, who will share their experiences and learnings.

Program dates:

• Applications – January 6^th until February 3^rd 2025
  (ist.pt/Lab2market2025)
• Launching Session – 21^st January 2025 | 2.30pm |  Civil Museum | Hybrid Session
• Pitch: short presentations of pre-selected applications –  February 12^th 2024 | 2pm to 5pm | in person/ Hybrid
• Results – until February 21^st 2025;
• Workshop:  26^th February 2025,  9am | in person
• One-to-one meetings: 26^th February 2025,  2.30pm | in person/ Hybrid 
• First 4 week working period – March 10^th to April 4^th 2025
• Workshop:  1^st April 2025,  9.30am | in person
• Mid-Term Meeting –  9^th April 2025 | 9:30am | in person
• Second 5 week working period – 14^th April – 16^th May 2025
• Workshop:  21^st May,  9.30am | in person
• Final Pitch presentation – June 3^th 2025 | 3:00pm | in person
  

Important Information:

Project presentations must be conducted in English.

Important points to focus on in the Pitch presentation and for the first meeting with I-deals consultants:

• What does the technology do and what state is it in.
• What is your competitive advantage.
• What are the applications of your technology.
• Who are your technology’s competitors and what do you do that they don’t do.
• There has been a previous market analysis.
• Who are your potential customers.
• Have you mentioned or thought of any potential customers?
• What do you hope to get out of the programme? (So that mentors can focus on the most important needs during the mentoring process).

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