Student & Former Student PRIZES

“An Enquiry Into The Design of Innovative Business Models” wins best thesis competition

João Pereira Campos successfully defended his MIETE thesis in 2020. The best thesis competition was staged at the international scientific conference ICIEMC 2021 (International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour) – held at the University of Aveiro (ISCA), on 1-2 July 2021. The list of awards given are to be found at: http://iciemc.pt/iciemc-awards/

FRAMIE overall winner of Venture Cup Portugal’s first edition (April 2017)

Framie, a project started in the course of Project for Opportunity Identification and Evaluation and developed on Business Construction Project at MIET (University of Porto), was the overall winner of Venture Cup Portugal’s first edition. The national university startup competition final took place on June 30th, at Casa da Música, where 10 finalists had the chance to pitch their business.

Judges stated to be impressed with Framie’s market potential, scalability and business model, which granted the victory to the team. The founders are now looking forward to the University Startup World Cup taking place in September 18-22, in Copenhagen, where they will be one of the teams representing Portugal.

Framie’s mobile app will enable anyone to complete thematic collections with their own pictures, redesigning the way that we collect and live experiences. The app’s launch is coming this September, and you can sign up for BETA (here) and start collecting the world in a revolutionary way.

FRAMIE awarded 5.000€ prize at Startup Porto Accelerator #1 (April 2017)

The project started in the course of Project for Opportunity Identification and Evaluation and had its continuity on Business Construction Project at MIET. The team behind Framie, António Lisboa, Cristiano Silva, Filipe Lima, Mónica Leiras and Tiago Monteiro kept working on it after finishing MIETE and were now awarded a 5.000€ prize at Startup Porto Accelerator #1. The app’s beta phase is set to launch on August 2017. (read more in our blog)

FRAMIE App (https://framieapp.com)

MIETE Team Ranks 2nd in iUP25k (Edition 2016)

MIETE Team Ranks 2nd in iUP25k, U.Porto Competition for Business Ideas (more information here and here – PT Only). Congratulations to our students Florian Rehm (Germany), Pedro Silva (Portugal) e Richard Ancuta (Denmark).

COTEC MUDA Dissertation Competition 2015 (April 2016)

COTEC MUDA Prize for the Best Dissertation in the area of Innovation and Entrepreneurship received 75 applications from 57 different programs and from 26 universities in Portugal. Out of these, 3 dissertation from MIETE students were ranked among the TOP10. The dissertation by Poliana Pires, although not the winner, was ranked among the TOP 3.

“A MULTIDIMENSIONAL FRAMEWORK TO IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE FLOW AND INNOVATION PROCESS AT THE FUZZY FRONT-END: A CASE STUDY IN A BRAZILIAN TECHNOLOGY-BASED FIRM” de Poliana Pires (read dissertation (EN), watch video presentation (PT))
“O PAPEL DA CRIATIVIDADE E DO DESIGN THINKING NA INOVAÇÃO” de Avelino Moreira (read dissertation here (PT), watch video presentation (PT))
“DISENTANGLING THE FUZZY FRONT-END: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW” de Ludovicus Eliens (read dissertation here (EN)). Ludovicus Eliens was not able to attend the final pitch event.

Please check here the list of the top 10 dissertations. The 74 dissertations may be found here.