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About Me

Frederico Dinis currently is R&D Facilitator of IIIUC - Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra which is a Research & Education unit of the University of Coimbra for the promotion of research and advanced interdisciplinary education.
He is also Licensee & Curator of TEDxCoimbra & TEDxCoimbraSalon Series and Founder of TEDxAveiro & TEDxCoimbra.
He currently attends the Doctoral Program in ‘Governance, Knowledge, and Innovation’, offered by the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, and organized by the Centre for Social Studies, with the aim to analyze innovation and knowledge production processes and their relevant policies, namely at European level.
He received his Graduate Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Coimbra and he also attended the Doctoral Program in Management from University of Coimbra and the Master on Innovation and Knowledge Management from University of Aveiro.
He is President of Flying Thoughts, a nonprofit association for the promotion of ideas, which aims to develop, promote and enhance knowledge and practices in creativity, talent, innovation, entrepreneurship and idea management.
He was Partner & General Manager of inCentor, an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Portuguese SME, Co-Founder of inovar.te, the Portuguese Innovation Magazine, and Executive Director at CCIM - Coimbra Centre for Innovative Management.
He was also Partner & General Manager of Self Energy Innovation, a knowledge management start-up in the renewable market.
He has written several articles related with innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, technology transfer & knowledge management issues.
He is an innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, technology transfer & knowledge management advisor with substantial team coordination and project/program management experience.