Fact sheet

Why work with ESA Broker in Portugal?

In the space sector, IPN is an active member of ESA's Technology Transfer Broker Network supporting the commercialisation of space technology in non-space markets and broadcasting the best and most promising space technologies, developed by companies and academia, enhancing new commercial ventures, licencing agreements and expanding their market outreach.

In addition, with the support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), IPN manages the ESA Business Incubation Centre in Portugal - a programme that supports entrepreneurs and startups up to 5 years old to use a space asset to create innovative businesses in other sectors - and the ESA Ambassador Platform for Satcom & Integrated Applications Promotion, a programme that funds demonstrator and feasibility study projects, supporting the use of satellite communications or a combination of two or more space assets to generate new or improve existing services in non-space markets.

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About IPN

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About ESA Broker Portugal - Instituto Pedro Nunes

IPN has more than two decades of experience in innovation and technology transfer and since its creation in 1991 the company has participated in more than 200 R&TD projects in consortia or by contracts with more than 200 companies, some of those outputting patented products.

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Multifunctional Composite Materials

The Institution has the facilities and experience required to develop modified resin systems that can provide multifunctional characteristics, based o ...

3D printer prototype developed for space

Additive Manufacturing / 3D printing technology

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an appropriate name to describe the technologies that build 3D objects by adding layer-upon-layer of material, wheth ...

Modular Operating System for Unmanned Vehicles (UVs)

A long-term investment in IMA (Integrated Modular Avionics) technology has given the company reliable evidence that the benefits originally pursued by ...

Innovative triboelectric nanogenerator to effectively harvest water flow energy

The proposed technology is a promising energy harvesting method that has a simple working mechanism. ...

Verification and validation of safety-critical systems – Fault Injection

Aerospace, automotive, industry, defense, telecommunications are some of the areas posing new challenges to the software industry in term of high avai ...

Packed – Code generator for network protocols

Although there are many software frameworks related with network communication aspects, usually the details of the binary messages and protocol are ge ...

SARGO: System for Acquisition of Reflected GNSS for Oceanography

SARGO is a system for probing water characteristics through the analysis of signals reflected from the water surface. ...

Pre-impregnated materials

The Institution has the facilities and experience required to develop the resin systems to be used in the preparation of carbon fibre pre-impregnated ...

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Network Highlights

First satellite created by Portuguese industry has connection to Earth

2 November 2017

INFANTE is a development and demonstration microsatellite project that will be in orbit (to be launched in 2020) as a precursor of a constellation for Earth observation and communications with a focus on maritime applications.

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Success Story

Bank on it

1 March 2017

Drawing on their experience building complex software for simulating spaceflight, Portuguese scientists have created a 21st-century way of detecting banking fraud here on Earth.

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Bank on It

It is great to see that the expertise and knowledge generated on European space programmes also can lead to innovative techniques in fighting credit card fraud

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