NEWS
Summary of Questionaire survey on firm involvement in marine renewable energies
June 26th 2024
The project conducted a survey to firms active or potentially interested in marine renewable energies, with a view to identify the firms that are forming the new industrial value chain and to obtain information of their activities and perceptions. A document was produced summarizing the results of the questionnaire that was sent to the respondents. This document is only available in Portuguese.
OceanTrans organises FINAL conference
September 21st 2022
OceanTrans Final Conference discussed the transformative potential of renewable energy technologies, with a particular focus on marine energies. The event was opened by the Secretary of State for Maritime Affairs and had over one hundred participants.
OceanTrans meets with Bernhard Truffer
May 9th 2022
A delegation from the OceanTrans project met with Professor Bernhard Truffer, on the 5th of May 2022, to discuss the results of its research on the emergence of an industry around marine renewable energy technologies in Portugal.
OCEANTRANS PARTICIPATES IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS' NIGHT
October 15th 2021
OceanTrans project participated in the elaboration of the Quiz - Cut on Carbon, in the scope of the European Researchers’ Night that took place on the 24th of September 2021. The theme of this quiz approaches the change to a life high on emotions and low on carbon.
OCEANTRANS PRESENTS PAPER AT THE RGS - IBG ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
September 4th 2021
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The Royal Geographic Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference took place, in London, between 31 august and 3 september 2021. In this online conference, the OceanTrans project presented a paper which reflects on the spatial dimension of the emergence and early development of the wave energy technologies.
OCEANTRANS PARTICIPATES IN THE 'ENTRE TRANSIÇÕES' CONFERENCE OF DINAMIA'CET
June 1st 2021
Research work from the OceanTrans project was presented at the 40th Anniversary Conference 'Entre Transições: retrospetivas, transversalidades e perspetivas' of DINAMIA'CET.
3rd Plenary Meeting of the OceanTrans Project
September 4th 2020
At the beginning of September, the third plenary meeting of the OceanTrans project took place. The event was held remotely using a digital platform. Members of the three partner institutions of the project were present: DINAMIA'CET from ISCTE-IUL, LNEG and CEGOT from the University of Porto.
WAVEC annual marine energy seminar focusing on Norway
December 5th 2019
The Museum of the Orient, in Lisbon, receives on December 4, the Wavec Offshore Renewables Annual Seminar on the theme “Portugal and Norway: Marine Renewable Energy and Offshore Aquaculture”. Portugal and Norway are often regarded as pioneering countries in the development of marine renewable energy technologies.
ISCTE launches a degree in Data Science
September 17th 2019
The first Portuguese degree in data science has started at ISCTE. The new course was launched in an open session in September 17, which was attended by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor and the Rector of ISCTE, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues.
TERRITORIAL KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES AND THEIR RELATIONS IN WAVES ENERGY
June 06th 2019
The project presented a paper at the RSA 2019 Conference in Santiago de Compostela, which focuses on knowledge communities formed in the field of wave energy.
PROJECT LAUNCH MEETING
December 21st 2018
The project launching meeting was held on December 21, 2018, at ISCTE, in Lisbon. The team discussed the research development strategy.
Article published for Finisterra
June 3rd 2024
The study investigates the variety in place configurations around a sustainable technology, in its early phase of development. Adopting a systemic and multi-scalar approach to technology development, this article proposes that the spatially distributed nature of technology emergence leads to the formation of different place configurations of actors and networks around the technology, which can contribute in different ways to its development.
OceanTrans PRESENTS WORK AT GEOINNO2022
July 6th 2022
The work Multi-dimensional effects of a sustainability transition policy: Sectoral and territorial consequences of the wind energy policy in Portugal of the OceanTrans project was presented at 6th Geography of Innovation Conference. The work was selected for the special session with the theme "The multi-scalar geography of sustainability transitions: Exploring interfaces between sectoral and regional innovation dynamics".
OceanTrans organises a debate with industrial actors about marine renewable energies
May 9th 2022
On Abril 21 the OceanTrans project organized a workshop with several industrial actors involved or interested in the marine renewable energy area.
oceantrans presents work at the 16th European conference on innovation and entrepreneurship
September 28th 2021
The researcher of the OceanTrans project, Cristina Sousa presented work at ECIE 2021 about opportunities for economic revitalization through inter-industry relations in the case of the blue economy. The ECIE 2021 (16th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) took place between the 16th and 17th of September 2021, at ISCTE in Lisbon.
OCEANTRANS PRESENTS PAPER AT THE 18th conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
August 27th 2021
It took place between 8 and 10 July 2021, in Rome, the 18th Conference of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. The paper presented by the OceanTrans project, during the online event, tackles the transformative potential of marine energy technologies.
From Products to Energy Transition: available knowledge and preparation for transformation in the economy
January 21st 2021
Research work on the OceanTrans project was presented at the Conference of the Portuguese Association of Energy Economics.
work presented at a conference on sustainable transitions
August 19th 2020
The determinants of the entry of companies into marine renewable energies in Portugal was the theme of the work presented at the 11th
International Sustainability Transition conference. The conference, originally scheduled to take place in Vienna, Austria, took place online between 18 and 21 August 2020.
Presentation of the project at a Master’s Interdisciplinary Seminar in ISCTE
November 29th 2019
Nuno Bento, project’s co-coordinator, presented last November 28 the OceanTrans project structure and preliminary results at the ISCTE-IUL’s Interdisciplinary Seminar of the Master on Sea Governance and Sustainability, at the invitation of Professor Maria Eduarda Gonçalves, head of the Master.
Economic Complexity and Innovation
September 4th 2019
The project OceanTrans attended the 2nd Annual Conference on Innovation and Complexity Geography, which took place in the Dutch city of Utrecht, between 2-4 September.
MEETING WITH INTERNATIONAL PROJECT CONSULTANT
April 3rd 2019
ETH Zurich consultant attends project meeting
Paper awarded prize by Finisterra journal
January 15th 2024
The paper "Sectoral and territorial effects of experimentation at early stages of energy innovations: Lessons from 20 years of marine renewable technologies in Portugal" co-authored by Margarida Fontes, Mariana Aguiar e Nuno Bento and presenting results of the research conducted by OceanTrans project, was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Finisterra 2022 Best Article Award. The award session took place on 19th October 2023, at IGOT-University of Lisbon.
druid 2022 had a presentation of the oceantrans project
June 13th 2022
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The work Assessing the industrial effects of the deployment of renewable energy technologies: when product identity matters was presented at the DRUID Conference and was well received.
OceanTrans participates in the Annual DINAMIA’CET-Iscte Workshop 2022
May 9th 2022
In the Workshop that took place on April 11-12 the project presented research on the transformative effects of the relationships between traditional and emerging sectors, focusing on the role played by knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms as “translators” and co-innovators.
Inter-sectoral relations to accelerate the formation of technological innovation systems
September 6th 2021
A new paper produced by the OceanTrans project was accepted. This reflects on the determinants of firm diversification towards a new technology and their role in sectoral interactions.
Unleashing the industrial transformative capacity of innovations
August 16th 2021
In the context of the OceanTrans project, it was published the paper "Unleashing the industrial transformative capacity of innovations" which reflects on the conditions in which the development of new technologies induce structural change in the economy.
effects of policies aimed at creating a Blue Economy on the behavior of companies
September 18th 2020
The work presented at this conference by the OceanTrans project was published in the annals of the 15th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE 2020).
2nd plenary meeting of the OceanTrans Project
December 10th 2019
Last Saturday, December 7, the second plenary meeting of the OceanTrans project took place at ISCTE-IUL, in Lisbon, with members of the three partner institutions of the project: ISCTE-IUL DINAMIA'CET, LNEG and CEGOT of the University from Porto.
BLUE ECONOMY IS DISCUSSED IN sT PETERSBURG
October 25th 2019
The researcher of the Oceantrans project, Cristina Sousa, presented in the last week of October 2019, results of her research about Blue Economy.
UNLEASHING THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF INNOVATIONS
June 26th 2019
The project presented a paper at the IST 2019 Conference in Canada, which reflects on the economic impacts of the emergence of new technologies such as wave energy or floating offshore wind.
EMERGENCY OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND INDUSTRY AROUND FLOATING WIND ENERGY
January 2019
The first output of the Oceantrans project was published in the journal "Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews".