Dina Pereira is currently managing UBIMEDICAL at University of Beira Interior (UBI), incubator for health and life sciences. Previously, had worked as researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (CEG-IST) – University of Lisbon and coordinated the IP Office at the Division of Research and Development of University of Beira Interior, where she was also responsible for EU Fundraising. She is member of the EIT Food RIS Council and mentor of the EIT Health Mentoring and Coaching Network (MCN). She realized many specializations in the fields of IP at INPI, EPO, WIPO and ASTP and entrepreneurship and technology transfer, at University College London, AUTM, UCLA, and University of Texas. She is co-author of a set of publications in entrepreneurship and innovation. She is associate researcher of CEG-IST – Centre for Management Studies /IST-University of Lisbon and NECE- Research Centre in Business Sciences/University of Beira Interior. She won the National Innovation Prize, 2017, National Innovation Agency and Ministry of Economy, Portugal; and the Best Paper Award of the Interdisciplinary European Conference in Entrepreneurial Research, IECER 2012, University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research interests include: entrepreneurship; innovation; coopetition and quality of work life. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-2744
