Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação
Beijing, December 2004
Sociedade Portuguesa de
Inovação
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Mission
SPI’s mission is to provide high quality consulting
services in the project management and training
areas, which foster innovation and promote
international opportunities; wherever appropriate,
such mission will be accomplished through the
creation of strategic partnerships and collaborations.
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International International
OrganizationsOrganizations
Industrial andIndustrial and
Financial CompaniesFinancial Companies
National National InstitutionsInstitutions
(Public & Private)(Public & Private)
SPISPI
ScientificScientific and Technologicaland Technological
InstitutionsInstitutions
Position
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ConsultingConsulting
R & DR & D
TrainingTraining
E-BusinessE-Business
InternationalInternationalEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship
Activities / Services
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Activities / Services
SPI ConsultingSPI Consulting can help clients navigate through can help clients navigate through the rapidly changing world of opportunities with a the rapidly changing world of opportunities with a focus on delivering tangible results. focus on delivering tangible results. SPI ConsultingSPI Consulting is a provider of services worldwide in a full is a provider of services worldwide in a full spectrum of fields and sectors.spectrum of fields and sectors.
ConsultingConsulting
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TrainingTraining
SPI TrainingSPI Training can conduct and manage training can conduct and manage training needs with regard to industry-required skills. needs with regard to industry-required skills. SPI SPI TrainingTraining applies applies when appropriatewhen appropriate innovative innovative pedagogical pedagogical toolstools, such as e, such as e--Learning, that foster Learning, that foster effective training cultures in client enterprises.effective training cultures in client enterprises.
Activities / Services
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SPI R&D SPI R&D provides the European Union and national provides the European Union and national organizations high quality project management organizations high quality project management services in the research and development areas, services in the research and development areas, thus allowing SPI to remain at the forefront of thus allowing SPI to remain at the forefront of innovation and assist innovation and assist clients clients in developing and in developing and managing innovative activities.managing innovative activities.
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Activities / Services
R & DR & D
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SPI SPI ee--BBusinessusiness allows allows clientsclients to continually to continually leverage available information technology towards leverage available information technology towards successfully fulfilling successfully fulfilling theirtheir goals with respect to goals with respect to business performance and personnel growth.business performance and personnel growth.
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Activities / Services
E-BusinessE-Business
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SPI EntrepreneurshipSPI Entrepreneurship provides provides clientsclients leading high leading high quality business incubation and entrepreneurship quality business incubation and entrepreneurship services with the expertise required to implement services with the expertise required to implement successful business incubatsuccessful business incubatorsors and to foster and to foster entrepreneurial activity.entrepreneurial activity.
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EntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship
Activities / Services
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SPI InternationalSPI International provides a global perspective to provides a global perspective to the SPI services with the ability to assist the SPI services with the ability to assist clientsclients in in reaching new international markets, partners or reaching new international markets, partners or collaboratorscollaborators,, to support business needs. to support business needs.
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Activities / Services
InternationalInternational
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Examples of projects:Examples of projects:
• InnoChina;
• Macautech - Macautech Incubator implementation strategy;
• Definition of a business strategy and identification of business
opportunities in the biotechnology sector.
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• Fostering international collaborations in innovative S&T
research between China and the Member States of the
European Union, including the detailed study and analysis of
China's policies, support structures and training programmes in
this area and the assessment of their compatibility with those of
Europe.
Client: European CommissionEuropean Commission, DG Research, DG Research
InnoChina
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• Development of a strategy for the implementation of an
Incubator Centre in Macau (Macautech), including the
selection criteria, infrastructure, services and human
resources, alliance development, growth strategy and financial
analysis.
Client: Confidential (People’s Republic Of China)Confidential (People’s Republic Of China)
Macautech - Macautech Incubator implementation strategy
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• Definition of a business strategy and identification of business
opportunities in the biotechnology sector through the identification of
major trends and opportunities, with a focus on the realities of the
USA and Europe markets, the definition of potential strategies for
new business opportunities and the establishment of contacts
between the Dare Group and American and European entities within
the biotechnology sector.
Client: Dare Group, Ltd. (People’s Republic of China)Dare Group, Ltd. (People’s Republic of China)
Definition of a business strategy and identification of business
opportunities in the biotechnology sector
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SPI StaffSPI Staff
• Prof. Augusto Medina – SPI President
• Ms. Sara Medina – Economic Consultant (SPI Porto)
• Mr. Wu Bin – SPI Chief Representative Officer in China
• Mr. Huang Can – Business Consultant (SPI Porto and Beijing)
• Mr. Miguel Taborda – Research Consultant (SPI Porto)
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Prof. Augusto Medina
Prof. Medina is an experienced consultant and academic. He has directed numerous private and public sector projects, and has special interest in business development, promotion of innovation, international development, creation of strategic partnerships, technology transfer and human relation issues.
Professor Medina has directed all of SPI’s work since its inception in 1996. This work includes research and development, innovation, training, e-business and entrepreneurial projects in Portugal and Western Europe, as well as in Asia, Africa, the USA and South America.
Professor Medina received his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1976. In addition to his commercial experience, he has extensive academic experience and is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal. He is also an Honorary Doctor at the Moscow State Academy of Applied Biotechnology, Russia, has received ICEF Achievement Award in Industrial and Academic Food Engineering in 1997 and was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite from the President of the French Republic in 1995.
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Ms. Sara Medina
Sara Medina is an economic consultant for SPI (Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação), having advised different private sector and public sector clients in a range of industries.
Sara has a Bachelors degree in Food Engineering from the College of Biotechnology in Portugal, a European Masters degree in Food Studies from 5 major European Universities and a Ph.D. degree in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida, USA.
Apart from her academic background, where she had the opportunity of developing expertise in areas of food processing and technology, econometrics, marketing and strategy, she has worked for two years with Accenture in the consulting area. She has consulted on different projects where she developed marketing and industrial strategies for a number of distribution and manufacturing companies in the agro - food sector.
Sara published a number of scientific papers in international journals and presented at various international conferences around the world.
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Mr. Wu Bin
Wu Bin is a marketing consultant with SPI China, helping European companies to enter the Chinese market, covering a broad range of products in sectors such as Textile, Food and Beverages and Equipment Goods. Wu Bin is SPI Chief Representative Officer in China.
Some of the services he has provided include marketing studies for bridging Chinese partners and assisting in all visits and eventual business cooperation, assisting in two missions organized by CEFAMOL to visit Chinese mould companies for the impending cooperation through either direct investing in China or technical cooperation.
Wu Bin has a Bachelors Degree from the University of International Business & Economics in Beijing, with a major in Economics. He has worked in ICEP (Portuguese Commercial Office) in Beijing for 6 years, successfully selling numerous Portuguese products in the Chinese market.
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Mr. Huang Can
Huang Can is a business consultant with SPI, with a strong emphasis on business in the China market.
Huang has a Bachelor degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Food Science from the Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. He is currently studying for a Ph.D. degree in Innovation Management in University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Huang cooperates with SPI since 1999, first as an intern before helping SPI to set up their Beijing office in 2002. He has been a key member of the SPI China business since 2002. Previous to working with SPI, he worked as a journalist, editor and marketing manager in for an IT magazine in Business News International, Beijing (a US media group in Beijing, China). He also worked as an English teacher in Shi Li School, a private foreign language school in Beijing.
Huang has developed knowledge in the fields of packaging, environmental protection, genetically modified food commercialisation, technological barriers to international trade, Chinese IT industry sector technology and strategy, and international innovation benchmarking practice.
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Mr. Miguel Taborda
Miguel Taborda is a research consultant focused on international markets, having participated in different national and international projects. Mr. Taborda is involved in projects for Portuguese companies interested in initiating or strengthening international activities.
Miguel Taborda has a Bachelors degree in International Relations from Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa in Portugal.
Apart from his academic background, where he worked with Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (AIESEC) in international student exchange, Miguel has experience in the IT sector, where he conducted market research and developed new business opportunities for a Portuguese company.
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