Vitor Vieira
Expert in public funding opportunities and entrepreneur
Motivation to join Alliance as a mentor for Blue Growth
Vitor is motivated by invention and innovation. Creativity in designing new ideas and approaches to existing problems is his passion. With this mindset, he is ready to help your start-ups advance their products and ideas with the help of public funding opportunities.Vitor has studied electronic engineering and did a PhD in medical robotics. The last decade he has been working on research and development and focused on innovation management. Particularly in assisting other companies (60% in healthcare) in advancing their products and ideas with the help of public funding opportunities. Vitor has started two companies: one in Heidelberg, Germany for innovation management that later merged with Inova+ group (Portugal) and another start-up in aquaculture of limpets in Madeira, Portugal. He is currently employed by Inova DE in Germany, where we maintain a connection with many different industrial and academic actors in many different industrial fields.
Market active/interested
Food, feed incl. nutraceuticals, aqaculture, pharma, agrochemicals and waste management (circular economy), biotechnology and biomedicine.
Expertise
Microalgae, incl. blooms, mussels, fish/shrimp, water, biotechnology components for biomedicine.
Organization information
Name of organization: Inova DE GmbH
Organization type: business support organization and R&D provider.
Size: 7 employees in Germany, 80 in the international group.
Department: N/A.
Main Focus areas:
Partnership for R&D and funding opportunity scoping. Grant proposal writing in many different industry sectors: marine, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, etc. Innova also provides software development skills, often in such funded projects, which is available on demand. In this context they have a development team with experience in IoT frameworks, reporting, traceability, big data and AI. The long list of developed projects and experience can be found in the website.
Service offer
Reserach infrastructure/equipment, business development, communication and lobbying.
