APPLICATION PROCESS FOR BUSINESS PROJECTS

The PCM has an entire system of services for entrepreneurs and for the incubation of technology based businesses, providing them with first class spaces and a wide range of complementary R & D professional services, essential for the viability of all kinds of business projects.

The PCM Business Development model has become a national and international benchmark in terms of creation and incubation of businesses. This model is structured in three levels of support for entrepreneurs, according to their business project level of development, aiming to speed up and increase return on the public research technology transfer processes, as well as attracting R&D&i businesses to the university environment and promoting cooperation among university, public research institutions and the business sector.

The PCM offers entrepreneurs a set of professional services aimed to increase the chances of success of new technology based businesses. Through an intensive programme of pre-incubation, incubation and acceleration, the new technology based businesses achieve the necessary support to consolidate their projects and make them competitive and ready to open up to the market.

The PCM welcomes innovative technology based projects from all sectors with the following minimum requirements:

a) to be legally constituted
b) to develop innovative products or services
c) to count with qualified technical staff
d) to have a viable project with international vocation and
e) to carry out respectful activities with the environment.

Although the PCM is a generalist Park, the majority of business projects admitted by the PCM currently belong to the following areas:

• Life sciences and chemistry
• New materials and engineering
• Information technologies
• Environment and renewable energies
• Other

INFRASTRUCTURES FOR INCUBATION

• BIOINCUBATOR I
• INCUBATOR II
• INCUBATOR III
• CHEMICHAL TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR II
  

INCUBATED BUSINESSES

Currently the PCM has 125 innovative associated businesses.