INESC TEC is an Associate Laboratory with 30 years of experience in R&D and technology transfer. It is a private non-profit research institution with the following associates: University of Porto, INESC and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Having around 750 researchers (300 PhD), which work in the interface between the academic world and the industrial and service companies, as well as the public administration, the activity at INESC TEC runs under the paradigm of the knowledge to value production chain: knowledge and results generated at fundamental research are typically injected in technology transfer projects and therefore receive additional social relevance. The existence of an Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit assures the effectiveness of this model.