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Adopt mechanisms to facilitate is a prime objective of many companies, always with the objective of getting closer to the customer.
paying attention to entrepreneurship in the areas of technology are the companies driving such as Google, which take advantage of the potential of countries such as Portugal. Was the search of opportunities embodied in startups in portugal which served as the basis of the Android Innovation Day.The Android emerged in 2007 as an open-source platform. Almost ten years later, there are about 25 thousand pieces of equipment, of various brands that use the platform.
Sponsored by Google, the event was intended to be a showcase of the best that is around here using the Android platform.
An example is the Mesh app. Founded in Portugal in 2013, is the Incubation of Companies of the University of Aveiro with the support of the Building Global Innovators, with offices in Lisbon and Boston.
Another of these companies is the MimicryGames, dedicated to the development of video games and experiences for virtual reality. Founded by Thomas Pope in 2012, in the Netherlands, has opened a branch of development in the city of Coimbra.
These innovative companies, with human capital and domestic technological, explained its operations to the RTP.
A commitment to the future
Present at this event was the secretary of State for Industry, João Vasconcelos, said that over the next four years, under the program Industry 4.0, the Portuguese Government will allocate funds of more than a billion euros to support the scanning of the Portuguese economy.Rival other systems, such as iOS and Windows phone, the Android system already has over a million apps available. Since its inception, has generated more than 1.2 million jobs in Europe.
“at This moment there are dozens of negotiations with the companies in this sector to come to Portugal. In this area we are very good. Is proven and we can be leaders in the world”.
John Vasconcelos explains that this investment is not decoupled from the commitment to teaching.
“When we are talking about technology, robotics, machines, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, the most important thing in all of this is not technology. The most important thing are people”.
“We have to have training in Secondary Education, vocational education, for the unemployed, in these areas, training in Higher Education, but the most important is the training for the assets and for the several generations that have not had contact with the technology”, explains João Vasconcelos.
“the strategy of Industry 4.0, people and training are the fundamental point,” insists the ruler.
Google sees Portugal as a point of departure
A decade is the period of time that Nicklas Lundblad, responsible of Google for the institutional relations in Europe, believes to be necessary, that all the world is connected by the Internet.
Portugal, points out this vice-president of the north american multinational company, “is an interesting point”.
“If we look specifically for Lisbon, she is ranked as the fifth best city to start. And it is a brilliant location to start. And I think that Portugal is developing very fast”.
Android Innovation Day
Google has chosen Portugal as one of the crossing points to publicize one of the most used tools by the company, the Android system.
The disclosure took place on the 29th of November at LX Factory, in Lisbon, where several entrepreneurs and companies interested in, or connected to the system, had the opportunity to show you and get to know the new capabilities.
In conversation with RTP, Nicklas Lundblad explained that the initiative Android Innovation Day is an opportunity to reflect on the current state of the Android system in the face of the source, a decade ago – a bet Google is to create an ecosystem free to developers, manufacturers and operators.
To Lundblad, “all together”, through the system, “can innovate, create value to the economy and also a lot of post work”.
The vice-president of Google believes that systems such as this may be, in the future, powerful economic engines for Europe.
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