The development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is one of IPCA’s key objectives. Through various initiatives and projects, IPCA is strengthening its institutional strategy to increase knowledge and awareness of entrepreneurship in its community.
To this end, IPCA, through the Employment, Entrepreneurship and Business Liaison Office (G3E), promotes and recognises actions, projects, practices, competitions and initiatives of a curricular or extracurricular nature, institutional and/or individual, that encourage the generation of ideas, the development of an entrepreneurial mindset, the promotion and internalisation of an entrepreneurial culture, in order to provide its community with tools that enable the development of projects in a business environment and the creation of self-employment.
The promotion of an entrepreneurial culture would not be possible without entrepreneurship education. Following this logic of action, the IPCA is committed to implementing and increasing the number of curricular units that are essential for the learning of this topic, appointing Entrepreneurship Coordinators in the 5 schools, who are available to support and promote the entrepreneurial network of the campus.
Poliempreende
What is it?
Poliemprende is an initiative promoted by all the country’s Polytechnic Institutes and University Polytechnic Schools, together with a group of non-integrated Higher Schools (Nursing from Coimbra, Hospitality and Tourism from Estoril and Nautical School Infante D. Henrique).
Created in 2003, the aim of the competition is to evaluate and reward projects developed and presented by students, graduates or teachers from these institutions, or other people, as long as they are part of teams made up of students and/or graduates.
The aim of this activity is to encourage students to develop their skills and to promote an entrepreneurial culture, offering professional opportunities through the creation of their own jobs.
Who can apply?
IPCA students currently enrolled
IPCA graduates
IPCA teachers/employees or other individuals as long as they are part of teams made up of IPCA students and/or graduates
The IPCA aims to make a significant contribution to facilitating the transformation of knowledge into business ideas, minimising the difficulties faced by entrepreneurs and contributing to the creation of an environment that encourages qualified entrepreneurship by creating a structure for incubating and/or accelerating spin-offs and start-ups at the IPCA.
It aims to prevent entrepreneurial projects from developing into a company at a stage when they are too technologically and/or commercially immature.
Available services:
Support for idea generation and relevant concepts from an innovation and creativity perspective;
Support for pre-acceleration of business ideas;
Support for the development of a business plan;
Support for the legal constitution of the company;
Technical advice;
Advice on trademark registration;
Assistance in accessing sources of finance
How to start your own business
Our support tips
At some point in our lives, we all have the desire to become entrepreneurs and start our own project. Starting a business consists of gathering and organising a set of resources in order to offer products and/or services to customers on the market.
The necessary resources are made up of:
People (human resources);
Goods and/or materials, equipment, furniture, land and/or premises (physical resources);
Information, knowledge and brands (intangible resources);
Money (financial resources);
The existence, survival and development of a business depends on the value/benefits it offers to the market.
This means that the company carries out a specific activity in an organised way in order to be able to offer products and/or services that have value in satisfying the needs of the market.
This activity depends on its ability to obtain resources to develop its offer: goods, raw materials, branches, cleaning, packaging, fuel, office supplies, energy, water, communications, money, etc. to carry out the operations that make up the company’s activity: ordering, purchasing, storing, producing, managing, distributing and marketing its offer on the market.
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