The five teams selected for this year’s Lab2Market@Técnico final – Lampsy; Nano4fresh Sympathia Thecnologies, Strata Fox and Valuebug – participated in a workshop on March 5 to work on the projects’ ideas. The activity took place at iStartLab, under the guidance of Luís Caldas de Oliveira, professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and director of this laboratory.
The Lab2Market@Técnico is an innovation acceleration programme organised by Técnico in collaboration with Global IT Services Provider & Consultant | NTT DATA, which aims to find the best way to value technologies developed at Técnico that can generate value and solve problems in society. The teams are made up of professors, researchers, doctoral and master’s students from Técnico who are developing innovative technologies and/or projects.
The finalists will now begin nine weeks of work guided by consultants from NTT Data and i-Deals, partners in this initiative, until May 29, when each team’s pitches will be presented.
Over these nine weeks, the selected teams will receive 250 hours of consultancy and training. In the first four weeks, the work will focus on the business model and building the pitch. The last five weeks will be spent approaching the market and contacting companies and potential clients.
Testwaves won the 2023 edition of Lab2Market@Técnico. The artificial intelligence-based solution for automating video game testing, developed by researchers from the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), was the first winner of the António Brandão Vasconcelos Award.
The projects selected were:
Lampsy – Vicente Garção, Hugo Plácido da Silva, Mariana Lima Abreu, Joana Pinto (Pattern and Image Analysis Lab – Instituto de Telecomunicações Lx (IT))
LAMPSY is an epileptic seizure detection device integrated into a lamp, which aims to offer greater peace of mind to patients and carers. Developed with automatic learning algorithms, it achieves over 99 per cent accuracy. It allows remote monitoring and sends alerts for a rapid response, potentially preventing sudden death in patients with epilepsy.
Nano4Fresh – Lívia Valle Dias, Laura Esteves, Ricardo Ferreira (Centro de Química Estrutural – CQE)
Nano4fresh aims to reduce fruit waste and boost agricultural economic growth in the European Union. It develops advanced materials for ethylene capture, with promising results in preliminary studies and practical validation.
Sympathia Technologies – Afonso Fortes Ferreira and Patricia Bota (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores para os Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias – INESC-MN and Instituto de Telecomunicações – IT):
Sympathia Technologies is developing an intelligent sock that monitors the nervous system to monitor mental health issues and improve therapeutic results. With a functional MVP (minimum viable product) validated in healthy subjects.
StrataFox – Luís Rosado, André Oliveira, Pedro Silva Faria (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering –DEEC)
StrataFox offers real-time quality control for manufacturing 3D metal parts by powder addition, guaranteeing consistency and reliability. It detects defects early, enabling timely corrections and discarding when necessary.
Valuebug – Ana Paula Ribeiro and Luísa Margarida Martins (Centro de Químcia Estrutural – CQE)
A sustainable process to produce high molecular weight chitosan from biomass, involving mechano-chemical extraction of chitin and mechano-chemical deacetylation in chitosan, without solvents and at room temperature.
