LISBON: ECONOMY AND INNOVATION 2016

Lisbon City Council | General Direction for Economy and Innovation

1. Vision
2. Strategic Goals
3. Highlights
4. Four Engines of Growth
5. Lisbon: Atlantic Business Hub
6. Lisbon: Startup City
7. Lisbon: Knowledge & Innovation
8. Lisbon: Strategic Clusters
9. International Economic Partnerships
10. Lisbon Economy in Figures
General Direction for Economy and Innovation 3
ECONOMY, INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
LISBON.

ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE, INNOVATIVE
AND CREATIVE CITIES OF EUROPE.
LISBON
Vision

Strategic goals
OPENNESS & FACILITATION
Openness to new ideas,
concepts, experiences and
businesses. View the city of
Lisbon as a Living Lab.
GLOBAL & LOCAL
Positioning Lisbon as an
international business and
innovation center, and
simultaneously develop
projects and initiatives with
local impact.
NETWORKS & CONNECTIVITY
Digital and physical
interconnection of actors and
partners, stimulating the creation
of ecosystems of innovation and
entrepreneurship.
ATTRACTION & RECEPTION
Create conditions for hosting and
accelerating companies and new
businesses with high potential for
growth and job creation.
AMBITION & LEADERSHIP
Clear ambition and strategic
direction to promote Lisbon
as a hub of innovation,
entrepreneurship and
creativity on an international
scale.
CO-CREATION & PARTICIPATION
Project design and
implementation involving
public authorities, companies,
universities, non-profit
organizations and citizens.
General Direction for Economy and Innovation6
Strategic goals

Highlights
1. INVEST LISBOA (www.investlisboa.com) has been positioning Lisbon as
an Atlantic Business Hub. Over the past 5 years supported over 2.000
investment projects which represent an estimated investment of around
€200 million, organized 50 missions / receptions and held more than 160
events.
2. In 2015 was launched the platform LISBON BUSINESS CONNECTIONS
(www.lisbonconnections.pt) involving over 800 individual connectors.
Between 2013 and 2014 seven executive meetings LISBON BUSINESS
CONNECTIONS took place involving the active participation of 130 top
managers of Multinational Companies.
3. INICIATIVA LISBOA it’s the one stop shop for businesses in Lisbon. It offers
a simple and fast service, in a single point of contact through a single
form, concentrating all requests in a single process. In 2015, INICIATIVA
LISBOA attended more than 1,200 entrepreneurs, received more than
7,300 applications for Zero Licensing and 634 requests for filming.
4. Lisbon was awarded by the Committee of the Regions as the
“ENTREPRENEURIAL EUROPEAN REGION 2015”. It was the first time that
a city received this award and it was the recognition of Lisbon’s strategy in
the areas of entrepreneurship and support to SMEs and self-employment.
5. Lisbon was chosen to host from 2016 to 2018 the WEB SUMMIT - Europe’s
largest and most important technology Conference and Marketplace.
6. STARTUP LISBOA (www.startuplisboa.pt) the municipality flagship
project for entrepreneurship and support of startups, has currently three
incubation spaces in Lisbon and a residence for entrepreneurs. It received
over the past three years more than 3.500 applications, supported more
than 230 startups which created about 1.000 jobs. The fund STARTUP
LISBOA LOANS (with funding up to 45,000 euros) funded 3 projects -
Village Underground, Lisbon Riders and Two Crows.
7. MADE OF LISBOA (www.madeoflisboa.com) is the digital platform
created by the municipality that federates the entire ecosystem. Include
more than 18 incubators and accelerators (which housed more than 470
Startups responsible for more than 3.000 direct jobs), 5 FabLabs, more
than 40 spaces of coworking, and the entire network of business angels
and venture capital funds.
8. LISBOA EMPREENDE - Micro entrepreneurship Program, launched in
2013 registered more than 1000 applications, help the implementation
of 250 projects, 40 of which are financed through Microinvest fund and
created 170 jobs. LISBOA EMPREENDE won the Jury Grand Prize in 2015
of the “European Enterprise Promotion Awards”, the most important
European Commission award for business and SMEs promotion.
9. The municipality organizes since 2012 the LISBON’s ENTREPRENEURIAL
WEEK which is a celebration of the spirit and dynamic of the Lisbon
entrepreneurial ecosystem. Over the past five editions were held more
than 150 initiatives, involving more than 140 partners.
10. LISBON’s YOUNG ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME, a partnership
between Lisbon City Council and JAP Portugal, involved in the last four
academic years more than 22.000 children and young students in 163
schools in Lisbon.
11. In 2015 the municipality launched the project “JUNIOR CODE ACADEMY
“in three primary schools, involving 75 children who start this way to learn
the basics of programming and code. This year the program began the
training of young unemployed in programming languages and ICT skills.
12. The municipality has given strong support to national and international
events and programs on entrepreneurship and innovation: Lisbon
Challenge, Building Global Innovators, Eurobest, SWITCH Conference,
Silicon Valley comes to Lisbon, Startup Pirates Lisbon, Bootcamp TiE

Lisbon, European Coworking Conference , European Creative Hubs
Forum, European Crowdfunding Platforms Summit, among many others.
More recently, Lisbon was chosen to host in WEB SUMMIT.
13. Strengthening the position of LISPOLIS – Lisbon’s Technological Pole - as a
reference space for the installation of tech companies in Lisbon. Currently
the LISPOLIS hosts more than 110 companies, representing more than
1,500 jobs, mainly highly qualified.
14. Development of STUDY IN LISBON platform (www.studyinlisbon.pt)
involving 16 partners (Lisbon’s Higher Education Institutions, FLAD, the
Fulbright Commission, ESN, etc.) in the definition and implementation
of a strategic plan that aims to increase the attractiveness of Lisbon for
international students and researchers.
15. FabLab Lisboa, the rapid prototyping laboratory of Lisbon, is the municipal
project that signals the commitment of Lisbon to be at the forefront of the
Makers movement. It was created in 2013 and installed in the Forno do
Tijolo Market. In the ast two years more than 1,270 users had registered on
the site, about 380 projects were supported, having been developed more
than 400 prototypes.
16. In the Sinel de Cordes Palace is installed the Lisbon Architecture Triennale,
setting the mood for the conversion of this space in a Creative Hub of
Lisbon around the architecture value chain. Currently there are installed in
the palace 7 projects/startups corresponding to the creation of 35 jobs.
17. LISBON FILM COMISSION was established in October 2012 to promote
the city as an international destination of filming, streamlining and
centralizing all the necessary procedures. In 2015 there were 630
requests for filming and photo shoots, generating 630 thousand Euros
in municipal fees revenue applied to footage (without support) and
about 10 million budget Euros of producing spent in Lisbon (in Cinema
area).
18. In May 2015 opened the MOURARIA INNOVATION CENTER - Mouraria
CREATIVE HUB, the first Creative Incubator of Lisbon with a capacity
to host 50 projects/creative companies. In the first call were selected
19 companies/projects representing 30 jobs.
19. Development of an economic strategy based in the development of
strategic clusters in Lisbon. Over the past two years were launched two
Blueprints - “LISBON CREATIVE ECONOMY” and “LISBON MARITIME
ECONOMY”.
20. The “LISBON SHOPPING DESTINATION” (www.lisbonhopping.pt)
launched in 2013 and involving a partnership between the Lisbon City
Council, the Union of Lisbon Traders, Lisbon Tourism Association and
the Port of Lisbon, aims to affirm Lisbon as an international shopping
destination.
21. Active participation of Lisbon in international networks in the areas
of Economy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as EUROCITIES, the
Committee of the Regions, TIE - THE INDUS ENTREPRENEURS or
LEADING CITIES.
22. Making available online publications and statistical information about
the economy of Lisbon: “LISBON ECONOMY IN FIGURES 2016” is
available on the City Council website.
Highlights

Lisbon: Four Engines of Growth
ATLANTIC
BUSINESS HUB
STARTUP
CITY
JOBS
&
EMPLOYABILITY
KNOWLEDGE &
INNOVATION
STRATEGIC
CLUSTERS

1. “LISBON: ATLANTIC BUSINESS HUB”
One of the basic assumptions of this strategy is the strong conviction that Lisbon should cooperate and compete on a global scale. The geostrategic
location of Lisbon as an “ATLANTIC HUB” and a number of important key factors of competitiveness, place this capital city in a unique position to attract
investments, businesses and talent.
To achieve these objectives it´s essential to develop actionable projects and initiatives that will turn this will into concrete results. The work that has been
developed by INVEST LISBOA (www.investlisboa.com), the city agency that promotes and supports investment, and the creation of the “Lisbon Business
Connections” (www.lisbonconnections.pt), a platform of more than 800 Lisbon Connectors that includes Portuguese and international top managers
that have a professional or emotional connection to the city, are two examples of important levers for the development of this strategy.
If the international positioning of Lisbon in attracting and retaining businesses and investments is important, it’s also important to create the conditions so
that anyone can start and/or expand its business or company in Lisbon. This is the work done since 2009 by INICIATIVA LISBOA, which aims to simplify
and centralize the process of installation and operation of businesses and economic activity in the city. This one-stop shop allows applications and
processes to be delivered in a single point of contact, combined in a single process and treated by a single manager.
2.”LISBON: STARTUP CITY”
The second driver of this strategy aims to transform Lisbon in a GLOBAL STARTUP CITY and create the conditions for more people to create and expand
their companies and businesses in the Portuguese capital. Lisbon was recently elected by the Committee of the Regions as “European Entrepreneurial
Region 2015”, award that was for the first time given to a European city and recognizes the strategy that has been developed by Lisbon in the fields of
entrepreneurship and support to SMEs and self-employment. More recently, Lisbon was the city chosen to host from 2016 to 2018 the WEB SUMMIT -
Europe’s largest and most important technology Conference and Marketplace.
The starting point for this strategy was the creation of STARTUP LISBOA (www.startuplisboa.pt) the city incubator for businesses that currently has
three spaces of incubation and a residence for entrepreneurs. From 2011 Lisbon began to stimulate an entrepreneurial ecosystem, which currently
has 15 incubators, housing more than 400 startups and 3.000 jobs, 4 FabLabs, about +40 coworking spaces and a strong community of Business
Angels and Venture Capital investors. In November 2016 it was launched MADE OF LISBOA - The new digital platform of all the Lisbon-based
Innovators (www.madeoflisboa.com).
It should be stressed that the strategy that has been developed in the field of entrepreneurship aims to meet different people and needs, and that was the reason
why it was created the micro entrepreneurship program – LISBOA EMPREEENDE - directed to small businesses, the Youth Entrepreneurship Program which
in 2015/16 involved more than 60 schools and 8,000 children and young students from the city or the DELI project directed to the migrant entrepreneurs.

3. ”LISBON: KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION”
Lisbon is a truly University City and the most important higher education region of Portugal. Lisbon has almost 100 institutions of higher education,
more than 130,000 students/year in universities, nearly 40,000 graduated/year and more than 15,000 researchers. With these key assets, Lisbon City
Council has been working intensively with all relevant institutions of the city, to strengthen its R&D and innovation system on an international scale
and integrate it in this economic development strategy.
The project “STUDY IN LISBON” (www.studyinlisbon.pt) illustrates this position and ambition. Involving a partnership with all universities and research
centers, and other institutions that support students and researchers. This project is based on a web platform that provides a set of information and
services with the core objective of attracting and retaining talent, making Lisbon a global center in the areas of knowledge and innovation. In january
2017, Lisbon City Council will open the Study in Lisbon Lounge, a focal point to help all the international students to settle in the city.
4. ”LISBON: STRATEGIC CLUSTERS”
We strongly believe that the STRATEGIC CLUSTERS are an efficient instrument to concentrate resources and investment and federate stakeholders
around structural projects, which, for its innovative nature and the ability to create value and jobs can contribute signiﬁcantly to expand and strengthen
the economy of Lisbon.
The approach to the strategic clusters of Lisbon is based on a common methodology which has as its starting point an assessment of the economic
value and employment in sectors with high potential for future growth in the city and the mapping of the strategic actors in each of these clusters.
The basic assumption of this work around Strategic Clusters is the involvement and active participation of partners in the development, validation and
discussion of programs and initiatives to be implemented in each sector.
This economic policy based on the development of Strategic Clusters currently includes the following sectors: Creative Economy; Health and
Wellbeing; Sea Economy; Digital Economy and the strong effort to transform Lisbon in a Smart City.
These four strategic clusters complement the more consolidated sectors and activities which have a greater weight in the specialization proﬁle of the
city’s economy, such as Tourism, Commerce & Trade, and Financial and Professional Services and the Real Estate value chain.

Lisbon: Atlantic Business Hub
Investment
LISBON is increasingly an attractive city for Multinational Companies (MNCs), but also the
lanchpad for the expansion of Portuguese and International companies.
Lisbon has been able to attract a growing number of companies, investments and talent,
something that results from structural factors but also from the strategy that has been followed
to put Lisbon on the map of the international competition.
Lisbon has very strong and multiple reasons to invest, especially its privileged geostrategic
situation as an European Atlantic Hub with access to 500 million European consumers,
benefiting from the advantage of maintaining unique relations with Portuguese-speaking
countries, representing a market of 250 million people.
Lisbon, It’s the economic center of a 2,8 million people metropolitan region, has high qualified
human resources, a cosmopolitan environment and high quality of life. On the other hand,
Lisbon is a city with sustainability concerns, highly creative and entrepreneurial, and also one
of the safest cities in Europe.

LIsbon: Atlantic Business Hub
Invest Lisboa
The Lisbon City Council and the Portuguese
Chamber for Trade and Industry (CCIP)
with the support of AICEP, created in 2009,
Invest Lisboa, an Agency for the Economic
Promotion of Lisbon, with the aim of
attracting investment and businesses to
Lisbon and to develop city’s economy.
Invest Lisboa essentially operates in
three areas: international promotion
of Portuguese companies; support for
investors and companies that want to locate
in Lisbon; and the design and development
of economic projects.
Invest Lisboa acts as a facilitator for
investors and companies, supporting project
installation in a personalized, free and
confidential way, providing information,
establishing contacts with local and
national institutions, giving advice and
identifying partners, facilities and investment
opportunities.
It also created, with the support of regional
partners, several support services for
investors, businesses and entrepreneurs as
the Virtual Office Service, the Office for Real
Estate and ABC Workshops.
Numbers of Invest Lisboa (2009 - 2016)
Investment Projects supported MIssions Events
200 2065 50 160
(million €) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº)

LISBON BUSINESS CONNECTIONS is an innovative platform that aims to attract businesses,
investment and create new jobs in Lisbon and Portugal, taking advantage of the strength of our
Diaspora and all of those who want to contribute to this ambition.
The mission is to attract foreign companies to Lisbon which are expanding internationally
through a growing number of Connectors, which can be managers, researchers or anyone able
to attract business projects to the Portuguese capital.
This project is organized into three areas:
1. The establishment of a Global Connectors Network.
2. Development of Initiatives and Actions allowing to involve the connectors and other partners
to design and propose actionable measures and solutions for the city of Lisbon.
3. The implementation of a territorial marketing strategy to attract investment, companies and
talent to the city and its region.
Between 2013 and 2014 were held 7 executive meetings Lisbon Business Connections, involving
more than 130 multinational companies.
In the ﬁrst quarter of 2015 was held the public presentation of the Lisbon Business Connections
Platform (www.lisbonconnections.pt), which currently aggregates more than 800 Connectors of
Lisbon.
BUILDING NETWORK-POWERED GROWTH ENGINE
FOR LISBON
Lisbon: Atlantic Business Hub
Lisbon Business Connections
LISBON EXECUTIVE MEETINGS WITH TOP MANAGERS
OF GLOBAL COMPANIES.

LIsbon: Atlantic Business Hub
Iniciativa Lisboa
INICIATIVA LISBOA was created by the City Council in order to simplify and centralize the
process of installation and operation of a business or economic activity in Lisbon. Applications
are received in a single point of contact, combined in a single process and folowed by a single
manager.
This is also the focal point for all operational services to support filming in Lisbon, with a
special online form for procedure and a single fee. At the site you can still benefit from the
Entrepreneur’s Desk services where you can create your company in one hour.
Specialized care advice and support to the entrepreneurs, where you can request all applications
necessary for opening and running a business or economic activity in Lisbon. In the Initiativa
Lisboa office you can still make your communications under Zero Licensing.
Services offered:
• Communications under Zero Licensing
• Filming and photo shoots
• Establishments operating hours
• Occupation of public space with street furniture
• Advertising Devices
Visits (2014) Communications under Zero
Licensing
Licenses for filming
and shooting
1.200 7.300 630
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº)

Lisbon is currently one of the most dynamic and vibrant entrepreneurial cities in Europe, open to
exploring new experiences, concepts and projects.
The Lisbon City Council has been developing and supporting a very diverse range of projects
and initiatives in the fields of entrepreneurship, inovation and creativity, with a strong focus in the
areas of incubation and acceleration of startups, support to SMEs and self-employment.
One of the newest must ambitious and innovative projects is Made of Lisboa.
Made Of Lisboa
Made of Lisboa it’s the new digital platform of the Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystem of
Lisbon. A place to get you updated about Lisbon’s innovation scene and the one and only official
community of Lisbon-based innovators.
The platform has four major objectives: INFORM. CONNECT. ATTRACT. ORGANIZE
Made of Lisboa was born because we know how you value straightforward information. Because
we are aware you feed your business with networking, and we are mindful of the fact that good
connections attract good investment and there is no such thing as a highly organized ecosystem.
Our goal is to outline and map the ecosystem and give you not only the power to see what your
ecosystem is made of but also the power to shape it through our tools.
Mix of Tools
MAP: The ecosystem pinpointed. The official Lisbon entrepreneurial ecosystem map where you
can find all the city innovators pinpointed and get yourself there too.
DIRECTORY: Spots, people, and companies. Stalk and track who belongs to your ecosystem,
what are their business about, who are your neighbors, and you can also text them.
ARTICLES: Cases, tips, and quotes. Track what other companies think and write about; you can
upload your articles, inform, inspire and become a MADE OF LISBOA influencer.
EVENT CALENDAR: Find out which events, meetings, and gatherings are coming up that might
interest you and your company.
MADE OF LISBOA
Community of Lisbon-based Innovators

18
INCUBATORS
& ACCELERATORS
1.348
STARTUPS IN
INCUBATORS & ALUMNI
(2014 - 2016)
05
FABLABS /
MAKERS SPACES
ANALYTICS
Ecosystem Numbers
3.164
JOBS IN INCUBATORS
& ALUMNI (2016)
5.730
JOBS IN INCUBATORS
& ALUMNI (2014 - 2016)
(LISBON, 2014 - 2016)
700
COMPANIES CREATED
IN HIGH TECH SECTORS
475
STARTUPS IN
INCUBATORS (2016)
4.750TOTAL COMPANIES
CREATED IN LISBON
(2015)
40+
(MILLIONS)
INVESTMENT
(RAISED BY STARTUPS)
180+
COWORKING
SPACES

FABLABS
COWORKING SPACES
INCUBATORS
ACCELERATORS
INVESTORS
CREATIVE HUBS
RESIDENCES
LISBON: A GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM
www.madeoﬂisboa.com
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MADE OF LISBOA
Lisbon has all the conditions to become
an international hub for startups and
entrepreneurs, in view of its political and
social framework, strategic access to
international markets, skilled, flexible and
competitive workforce , academic and
scientific system, excellent quality of life,
and modern infrastructures.
The major contribution of this ecosystem to
strengthen the city’s competitiveness and
boost employment, was one of the main
reasons behind the digital platform MADE
OF LISBOA (www.madeoflisboa.com) which
started to identify and to network all spaces
of incubation existing in the city, mapping
and integrating progressively an increasing
and diversified number of stakeholders:
business accelerators, coworking spaces,
Fab Labs, Creative Hubs, Business Angels
and Venture Capital companies, among
others.
Many startups that began their activity in
some of the city’s incubators, expanded their
activity and are currently located in office
spaces in Lisbon (vd Uniplaces, nMusic,
Science4You, Landing Jobs, Unbabel,
Ezimut, among others).
It´s this diversity, density and quality of
actors that forms the major driving forces
behind the entrepreneurial ecosystem of
Lisbon, increasingly visible at an international
scale.

MADE OF LISBOA
A strategy structured around an
ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM allows us to
work and develop projects and initiatives that
respond to the critical challenges of the city’s
economy, among which we can highlight the
following:
• Connect and federate a very diverse network
of actors (Incubators, Acceleration Business
Programs, Coworking Spaces, Fab Labs,
Funding institutions and programs; Mentors);
• Strengthen the link between large companies
and startups / SMEs. Two great examples were
the the two sessions organised in the Lisbon
Stock Exchange (Euronext Lisbon) joining large
companies listed on the stock exchange and
startups or early stage companies that are part
of the Lisbon entrepreneurial ecosystem, and
the two STARTUP MEETUP LISBOA organized
in 2016, involving 20 large companies,
investors and more than 90 startups.
• Improve the interconnection between the
scientific and technological system of the
city and the business community;
• Work more effectively and closely with
universities, enhancing its role and synergies
with the entrepreneurial ecosystem of
Lisbon;
• Working not only the ecosystem at a
local and regional level but at the same
time support the global expansion of the
ecosystem, allowing the attraction of
entrepreneurs, startups, investors and other
stakeholders. The “European Entrepreneurial
Region 2015” awarded by the Committee of
the Regions, and more recently the hosting
in Lisbon of the Web Summit are two
examples of this international affirmation.

Lisbon: Startup City
STARTUP LISBOA
The creation of a business incubator in
Lisbon was one of the measures adopted
in the Participatory Budget 2010 of Lisbon’s
City Council.
Opened in 2012, Startup Lisboa mission is to
foster the development of entrepreneurship
and job creation, by combining
infrastructures and specialized support
services, promoting innovative projects with
potential for internationalization.
Applications
(last 3 years)
Startups
(last 3 years)
Mentors Jobs created
(last 3 years)
Partnerships Occupation
(2016)
International
Presence
Multiculturality
3.500 230 +100 1000 50 94 250 +25 30%
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº) Startups Entrepreneurs Startups
Foreign
Entrepreneurs
Partners: CML | Invest Lisboa | Montepio | IAPMEI | www.startuplisboa.com
Startup Lisboa currently have three business
incubation spaces.
Startup Lisboa Tech, is an incubator for tech
companies. Startup Lisboa Commerce, a
business incubator specialized in hosting
projects in trade, services and tourism.
In 2015 the municipality opened a third
incubation and acceleration space also
located in the downtown of the city.

STARTUP LISBOA
In July 2015, in a former student’s residence,
opened the Startup Lisboa House, a
residence for young entrepreneurs that
come to Lisbon to develop or present their
projects, attend training, find investments,
etc. The “House” is directed to entrepreneurs
who are not resident in Lisbon and need to
stay temporarily in the capital to develop
projects and contacts.
Startup Lisboa also manages the fund
Startup Lisboa Loans, with funding up to
45,000€, which is intended to companies
existing with 3 or more complete financial
years (financing up 100% of the investment)
or to new companies or existing businesses
with fewer than 3 full financial years
(financing up to 85% of the investment).
There are already 3 projects funded: VILLAGE
UNDERGROUND, LISBON RIDERS and DOIS
CORVOS.

European
Commission
Winner
Lisbon Micro-Entrepreneurship
Lisbon Municipal Council, Portugal
Grand Jury Prize
A special prize awarded to the
entrepreneurial initiative considered the
most creative and inspiring in Europe.
European
Enterprise Promotion
Awards 2015

LISBOA EMPREENDE - Micro-Entrepreneurship
Applications
Projects / Companies
Supported
Installed
Financed
Jobs
Created
1200 300 83 44 180
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº)
LISBOA EMPRENDE - Lisbon Micro-
Entrepreneurship, is an initiative from the City
Council targeted to support new companies
and SMEs, providing free consulting services
and access to microcredit instruments that
can amount up to 20,000 Euros.
The Lisbon Micro-Entrepreneurship
program, launched on February 2013, is
part of the Lisbon City Council strategy for
entrepreneurship and aims to meet the needs
of entrepreneurs who want to develop small
businesses but have difficulties to access
investment.
This program aims to boost the city’s
economy, supporting people to create their
businesses.
The project supports entrepreneurs in
structuring the idea, developing the business
plan, obtain financing and help the project
implementation.
This project is directed primarily to boost
businesses in the commerce and services
sectors in the city of Lisbon, and aims
to establish itself as a response to the
limitations of the traditional labor market
through an approach based on self-
employment.
The program received the Grand Jury Prize
of the “European Enterprise Promotion
Awards”, the most important award given
by the European Commission in the area of
business promotion and support to SMEs.
Major Partners:
Cases | Audax | Montepio Geral| Millenium BCP | ANDC | Cooperativa João Sem Medo | IES
Other partners in the Network:
Startup Lisboa Tech e Startup Lisboa Commerce | Invest Lisboa | UACS | Beta i | Labs Lisboa | EGEAC

Transform Lisbon in a big
Open Innovation Laboratory
www.smartopenlisboa.com

SMART OPEN LISBOA
What
Smart Open Lisboa (www.smartopenlisboa.com) is an open innovation program where
startups will get to use the city’s open data to develop and test their solutions in real life
conditions.
Outcomes
The end goal is to address the four major Areas of the project: Citizen Engagement;
Mobility; Sustainability; Tourism & Culture.

Lisbon. The ﬁrst European Capital to launch a territorial Crowdfunding Platform.
It’s Boaboa – From and for Lisbon!

PLATAFORMA CROWDFUNDING - BOABOA
“BoaBoa” is the Crowdfunding Platform from and for Lisbon.
BoaBoa is a collaborative way to test and raise funds for ideas and projects in the
following areas.
• Entrepreneurship;
• Social Entrepreneurship and innovation;
• Science and R&D;
• Culture, Citizenship and Participation;
BoaBoa provides an online platform for any entrepreneur to find support from a large
community, in a simple and transparent way. This is the power of “Crowdfunding”

Lisbon Entrepreneurship Week
The creation of an entrepreneurial culture
and spirit shared between all actors
and partners of the city of Lisbon it’s
fundamental for the promotion of a dynamic
and vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The Lisbon City Council organizes, since
2012, the Lisbon’s Entrepreneurship Week.
The municipality challenges all partners who
share this ambition of transform Lisbon in an
entrepreneurial city to present and organize
an event / initiative to be held on this week.
After the success of the first edition every
year were organized new editions of this
initiative, demonstrating unequivocally
the strong will of the City Council and of
all partners to celebrate entrepreneurship
in Lisbon. During the LEW 2013 it was
produced the “Lisbon’s Entrepreneurship
Manifesto” with the contribution of all
those who are part of the entrepreneurial
ecosystem, which intended to define a set
of measures to promote entrepreneurship in
Lisbon.
IIn these 5 editions of Lisbon’s
Entrepreneurship Week were undertaken more
than 120 events which had the presence and
contributions of over 140 partners.

Labs Lisboa celebrates in 2016 two years of
activity. The incubator´s founding members
are the Municipality of Lisbon, the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation and ISCTE-Institute
of Lisbon, and it’s managed by Audax
(ISCTE’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Center).
Result of a partnership with Vodafone
Portugal, the Vodafone Power Lab (a
program to support entrepreneurship and
Applications Startups
supported
Mentors Jobs
created
Founding
Partners
200 63 25 210 5
technological innovation) is also based in
Labs Lisboa.
Over these two years, the Labs Lisboa in
its 1000m2 of incubation and coworking
space, has hosted more than 60 startups in
different stages of maturation that created
more than 200 jobs. These are startups
focused mainly in the service sector and
ICT, with particular focus on web design,
software and mobile.
Labs Lisboa

Lisbon Challenge is an international
acceleration program created
by Beta-i which has, since the
beginning, the support of Lisbon
City Council.
The Lisbon Challenge is currently
one of the most ambitious
European acceleration programs
for technology-based companies,
where startups are accelerated
for three months and have the
opportunity to develop swiftly their
business, based on a structured and
validated program.
Startups
(last 4 editions)
Countries Jobs Created International
Startups
Mentors and
Investors
Investment
(raised by startups)
362 54 781 85 200 55
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (%) (Nº) (Millions)
In the end, they present their business to national and international investors.
The goal is to offer companies the best conditions to gain traction, to develop their business
model and also to be able to identify and exploit growing opportunities in international
markets.
In the last four years were invested over €55 million euros in startups that have gone through
the Lisbon Challenge (3 investments made by Y Combinator and 2 by Seedcamp).
Lisbon Challenge

FabLab Lisboa
Opened in July 2013, FabLab Lisboa
is a digital fabrication laboratory
which supports rapid prototyping,
personalized manufacturing and industrial
experimentation.
The Fablab Lisboa was built in an old
slaughterhouse located in the Forno do
Tijolo Municipal Market, and its main goal
is to turn ideas into reality, allowing the
creation of new products, which in turn can
boost job creation and wealth in Lisbon.
In this space are available industrialand safe
equipments, such as small and large milling
machines, laser cutting machines and vinyl
cutting, 3D printer, electronic counter,
computers and their programming tools
supported by CAD and CAM software.
Over 400 prototypes were created in less
than 3 years. The FabLab Lisboa it’s proud
to be a laboratory accessible to the ordinary
citizen, a space of knowledge and sharing
experiences, enabling democratic access to
innovation, entrepreneurship, discovery and
creativity, aiming the social and economic
development, at individual or communitarian
level.
Partners:
CML | Corticeira Amorim l Iberomoldes | CENTIMFE | AIP-CCI
António Costa, 2013
«This space serves as a bridge between the creative community and the industrial
production areas of Lisbon.»
Machine
reservations
(Open Days
Visits without
reservations
Registered
Users in
the Website
Prototypes Study
Visits
Main areas of use
951 1889 1300 400 18 39% 21% 12% 5%
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº) Design Architecture Engineering Arts

Lisbon Youth Entrepreneurship Program
The strategy of the Municipality of Lisbon
for the areas of entrepreneurship and
innovation had from the start the purpose
of fostering a culture of entrepreneurship in
young students in public schools.
The municipality has developed several
projects in order to grow values of civic
responsibility in children and youngsters,
involvement in community life, stimulate
education for citizenship or the importance
of shared responsibility.
In this context, the municipality of Lisbon
established a partnership with JAP - Junior
Achievement Portugal - for the development
of Lisbon’s Young Entrepreneurship
Program.
In 2015/2016 were involved more than
8,000 children and young people in about
40 schools of the city of Lisbon.
In addition to this partnership with JAP, CML
is developing the program “JUNIOR CODE
ACADEMY” which began in the academic
year 2104/2015 to teach Code for children
and young people from various schools in
the city of Lisbon.
Numbers from last 5 years:
Schools Programs Children/Youngsters
163 4 22.000
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº)

Code Academy
The Code Academy Program is a response
to the need to train IT programmers in a
market where employment continues to
increase and in contrast the demand for
these courses continues to decrease.
The Code Academy is also directed to
unemployed that through an intensive
training of about 3 months learn all the
codebases and key programming tolls to
become skilled and capable programmers
and enter the labor market, mainly in
partner companies that are willing to
include this trainees in their staff.
Junior Code Academy - Because code
playing is serious stuff.
The Junior Code Academy is a
complementary project, which aims to teach
programming to students in basic schools
by using software developed specifically for
this and with the help of robots interacting
with the children.
Thanks to this partnership between the
municipality and the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, in 2015, the Junior Code
Academy was able to implement a pilot
with 75 students of the 3rd and 4th year of
elementary school, aged 8 and 9 years.
Schools Classrooms Students
3 3 75
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº)
Partners:
CML | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian l Startup Lisboa l
Laboratório de Investimento Social

European Project DELI – Migrant Entrepreneurship
DELI is the acronym for Diversity in
the Economy and Local Integration,
an innovative European project that
aims to support inclusive policies and
strategies targeting the immigrant business
community, promoting forms of local
development sensitive to the economic
rights of immigrants and enhancing the
socio-cultural diversity.
The concern about the integration of
immigrants is one of the European Union
brand images.
In Lisbon, the management and
coordination of DELI project was assigned
to the Municipal Direction of Economy
and Innovation (DMEI) of the Municipality
of Lisbon, which worked closely with the
Office Lisbon Crossroad Worlds (GLEM) and
GABIP-Mouraria.
Thus, the Lisbon City Council seeks to
continue the path that has been trodden
in the fields of diversity, interculturalism
and integration of immigrants in the city,
for instance, through its participation in the
Intercultural Cities Network.
Official website of the project, the Council
of Europe: http://pjp-eu.coe.int/web/deli

LISBON
KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION

Higher
Education
institutions
higher education
students
Annual
College
graduates
R&D
Centers Researchers Incubators S&T Parks
Foundations focused
on Science, R&D
Students
Residences
R&D (% of
GDP)
96 138 36 163 15 16 3 15 72 1,8
(Nº) (milhares) (milhares) (Nº) (milhares) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (%)
Lisbon: Knowledge and Innovation
STUDY IN LISBON
Lisbon is the largest University and Research Hub of Portugal, with more than 140,000
students enrolled in higher education, more than 15,000 researchers, receiving more than
13,000 international students annually
and more than 3,000 students under the Erasmus program.
Following the plan to strengthen the position of Lisbon as a center of knowledge and make
it a true Erasmus city, the City Council launched the platform STUDY IN LISBON (www.
studyinlisbon.pt), which wants to be an aggregator platform for information, partners and
initiatives, and has as main objective to attract and retain talent (students and national
and foreign researchers) positioning Lisbon internationally as a global hub in the fields of
knowledge and innovation.
“Portugal’s climate and lifestyle draw funds to
education and healthcare.”
In Financial Times, December 4th, 2014
www.studyinlisbon.pt

GARAGE ERASMUS
The garagErasmus Foundation developed
the first professional network for the Erasmus
Generation. Its mission is to promote labor
mobility and the circulation of ideas in Europe
within more than three million Erasmus alumni.
Lisbon became member of the garagErasmus
Foundation which aims to join forces with
the largest number possible of European
universities in order to build the largest alumni
online network of the world, through the
platform: www.public.checkineurope.org
The online platform allows the “Erasmus
generation” to find companies and recruiters
interested in their profile of international
experience and its presentation was made at
the end of September 2015 in Lisbon.
KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION MAP
http://mapadoconhecimento.cm-lisboa.pt
The Lisbon’s Map of Knowledge and
Innovation is a digital platform that allows
people to know and exploit the academic,
research and development and innovation
ecosystem of Lisbon.
STUDY IN PORTUGAL NETWORK
Signed on 7 October 2014, the partnership
protocol with FLAD in the framework of the
project Study In Portugal Network (SIPN),
http://studyinportugalnetwork.com/, a
program created from scratch, to host foreign
university students in Portuguese universities,
in particular from North America. The program,
called SIPN applies to foreign students of 1st
cycle (bachelor), who want to develop semi-
annual or annual programs, summer courses
and academic internships in study abroad
format.
SIPN is an initiative from FLAD, which also
ensures its consortium system management
with the following universities in Lisbon: ISCTE
- University Institute of Lisbon (IUL), University
of Lisbon (UL), Nova University of Lisbon (UNL)
and Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) all
also partners of the Study In Lisbon project.
FLAD ensures the student recruitment process
for the program and the financial management
and logistics of the entire program, while
promoting
the city of Lisbon as a destination of choice
for these students, and proposed to the
municipality both: the exchange of information
between the SIPN and the Portal STUDY IN
LISBON, and the institutional and promotional
support to the program and the students
during their stay in the city.
NAFSA
Association of International Educators
www.nafsa.org
The NAFSA - Association of International
Educators is an international association
of education that organizes, since 1948,
the US annual conferences of education,
aimed at supporting and developing the
internationalization of students through
workshops, thematic seminars and networking
between professionals of the educational area.
Each year, the conference is accompanied by
a fair where universities, government agencies
and companies linked to the recruitment of
students and various organizations involved in
education worldwide are represented.
The Lisbon City Council (CML) was
represented, for 4 consecutive years (2012 to
2015) in the Annual Education Conference that
takes place in the US.
Lisbon City Council presence at NAFSA aims
to disclose Lisbon as a city of knowledge and
innovation and as a destination of excellence
for study, work and invest.
STUDY IN LISBON

LISPOLIS
Lispolis is the managing body of the
Technological Center of Lisbon and its main
objectives are to support the installation
and development of companies that offer
innovative products and services, providing
space and proper conditions for its operation,
and contributing to the promotion of
technological development and innovation
as key elements for improving national
competitiveness and particularly in the city of
Lisbon.
Currently the Lisbon Technological Center
has more than 120 companies installed and
created 1,200 skilled jobs.
The Lisbon City Council, in partnership with
the founding partners of the Technological
Center, started in 2013 a strategic agenda
for the Lispolis - “Lispolis: a new strategic
ambition “- which includes five strategic
areas: internationalization, investment,
entrepreneurship, knowledge and networks.
Its main goal is to create an “Innovation
Hub” based on attracting anchor actors and
strategic projects that will make Lispolis
and its contiguous territories in a reference
space for the installation of companies in
the city of Lisbon.
Lispolis has all the conditions to become
a territory of excellence that enhances
the synergy and growth of companies,
organizations and scientific and
technological institutions, promoting, by
strengthening their distinctive capabilities,
the economic development and the
competitive advantages of Lisbon.
Companies Startups Jobs
120 40 1500
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº)

Lisbon: Strategic Clusters
We strongly believe that Ecosystems
and Clusters are important strategic
platforms and efficient instruments for
the development of Lisbon economy.
We want that the strategic clusters
of Lisbon to consolidate and
renew continuously, ensuring the
dissemination/transfer of knowledge and
know-how.
The starting point for the approach
to the strategic sectors in Lisbon is
based on a common methodology that
includes indicators and the mapping of
its major actors. The strategic partners
actively participate in the development,
validation and discussion of the
programmes and initiatives for each
sector.
http://clustersestrategicos.cm-lisboa.pt
BLUE
ECONOMY
HEALTH &
WELL BEING
DIGITAL
ECONOMY
(ICT, WEB)
CREATIVE
ECONOMY
COMMERCETOURISM
ENTREPRENEURSHIPKNOWLEDGE &
INNOVATION
GREEN
ECONOMY
SMART
CITY
URBAN
RESILIENCE
CONSTRUCTION
& REAL STATE
FINANCIAL
SERVICES

Creative Economy
One of the emerging sectors in the city of Lisbon is undoubtedly the Creative Economy,
understood here as an economic sector central to the city, crossing different economic,
sociocultural and technological dimensions and being developed by numerous actors in
constant dialogue and transformation.
There are being developed interactive processes between the private and public initiative
that can result in win-win situations and Lisbon City Council wishes to give visibility to
the dynamics of the creative economy and continue to be an enabler for the interaction
between its own activities, with private and public institutions.
Lisbon Blueprint for the Creative Economy was presented in May 2013.

Mouraria Innovation Center - Mouraria Creative Hub
Mouraria Innovation Center - Creative
Hub, opened on May 29th, 2015 as the first
incubator in Lisbon to support projects and
business ideas of the creative industries,
especially in the areas of Design, Media,
Fashion, Music, food, among others.
Installed at Rua dos Lagares, a former
palace of the fifteenth century, the space
has the capacity to accommodate about
50 entrepreneurs. The building, owned by
the municipality, was completely renovated
and has 11 working rooms and several other
spaces to accommodate creative industries
entrepreneurs.
CIM offers fully equipped spaces, a large
network of mentors, training and consulting,
access to financing solutions and marketing
support for products and services.
Applications Companies /
Projects
Mentors Jobs Partnerships
56 14 11 26 15
Partners:
CML | AMAEI | Clube dos Criativos de Portugal | FABLAB LISBOA | ETIC | AR.CO | VdA | FBA - UL l Associação Moda
Africana de Lisboa | FA - UL | IADE | LSD | Magestil – Escola de Moda de Lisboa | ModaLisboa | Modatex | Restart | Vieira
de Almeida & Associados

Creative Economy
The selection of Lisbon’s creative economy
as a relevant cluster in urban competitiveness
emerges as a natural result of the urban
dynamics and achievement of its main actors,
making it one of the privileged and inseparable
vehicles of the national and international
acknowledgment of the city and the
neighbouring region, along with an important
impact on the economic dynamics.
The Municipality of Lisbon has been
working actively to position the city and the
Lisbon region as a model reference in the
application of municipal policies beneﬁcial
to the development of entrepreneurship and
in particular for the cluster of the Creative
Economy. The effort to rehabilitate the city’s
damaged urban network through new uses,
with the purpose of satisfying the demand by
young creative entrepreneurs who view them
as places of choice for a workplace: the Forno
do Tijolo Market where FabLab Lisboa was
installed – a prototyping laboratory, Start Up
Lisboa incubator was located in rehabilitated
buildings in Lisbon’s downtown area, or the
rehabilitation of the Sinel de Cordes Palace
where a creative cluster has been formed with
projects concerning architecture, among others.
Creative Jobs
(Region)
% of Creative Jobs
of Lisbon (Region) in
Portugal
Creative Companies
in Lisbon (Region)
% of Creative
Companies of
LIsbon in the Total
of Portugal
% of Creative GVA
of Lisbon in the total
of Portugal
52.724 47,0 24.236 43,0 62,0
(Nº) (%) (%) (%) (%)
FIGURES OF THE CREATIVE ECONOMY OF LISBON
(2014)

Creative Economy
In addition to the public initiative, it is also
worth mentioning the private initiative, in great
upsurge in the city with a strong connection
to the traditional neighbourhoods such as
the LX Factory in Alcântara, the Fábrica Braço
de Prata in Poço do Bispo, the recovery of
the Ribeira Market with the assignment of
the management to Time Out Magazine,
or the rehabilitation project for the old
Desterro Hospital that has been designed
to accommodate assorted creative spaces.
These spaces advocated as references of the
creative movement bring with it a search for
several parallel services, energizing the street
commerce and the tourist attraction of an
entire area of the city, which thus reborn to a
new economic reality gone astray.
Also participating in international projects
(Cross Innovation, WeTraders), attracting and
supporting events around creativity in the
city (Creative Hubs Forum 2015, European
CoWorking Conference 2014, IN Festival,
Eurobest Festival, Lisbon Architecture
Triennale, Lisbon Fashion Week, to give just a
few recent examples) or the establishment of
the Lisbon Film Commission with an important
role in the enterprise of ﬁlming in the city, are
outlines of a strategy to cement the creative
cluster in the city.

Lisboa Film Comission
The Lisbon City Council created the Lisboa
Film Commission (LFC) to promote the city
as a preferred destination for filming and
photo shoots, including an intensive work of
reorganization of activities, processes and
procedures to streamline support for films
and audiovisual productions in the city.
Lisboa Film Commission supports the
production companies and the professionals
of the cinema and audiovisual sector,
acting as a focal point and facilitator with
the various municipal services, ensuring
the monitoring of licensing and granting
of municipal aid, the examination of
applications and clarification through
scheduling previous meetings, research
locations, and establishing links with entities
outside the municipality.
The film, audiovisual and advertising
activities are an important local economic
development factor, not only due to the
direct impact on the city with the demand
for goods and services but also the
indirect impacts, including through greater
international promotion of the city and
creation of jobs.
Filming /
Shootings
Requests
Shootings
Days
Average
Number of
Shootings per
day in Lisbon
Municipal
Revenues
Municipal
Incentives
to Filming
Productions
Productions
Budget
spent in Lisbon
630 1880 5 630 430 10
(Nº) (Nº) (Nº) (mil €) (mil €) (milhões €)
Fonte: LFC/CML 2015

Pólo Criativo de Santa Clara / Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa
In the Sinel de Cordes Palace is installed the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, setting
the mood for the conversion of this space in a Creative Hub of Lisbon around the
architecture value chain.
Currently there are installed in the palace 7 projects/startups corresponding to the
creation of 35 jobs.
“Angular”, “Arqa”, “Caus”, “KWY,” “Linhabranca”, “Multidão” and the collective
“Warehouse”, are the projects located in this Creative Hub.
Pólo Criativo de Santa Clara

Maritime Economy
The sea is one of the Portuguese economy’s
main assets.
Based on data for 2006, it was estimated
that the maritime economy in Portugal
represents 4% of GVA, 3.6% of employment
and 4.2% of GDP.
Lisboa has a long history of links to the sea
and the River Tagus and is united with both,
thereby forming a unique and inseparable
identity.
In this context, we intend to stimulate
projects to make the city a unifying pole of
the maritime economy, based on dynamic
partnerships. The goals are to strengthen
the city’s maritime identity and specialisation
of its economy, support the creation and
installation of maritime companies, make the
city a key cultural and tourism destination and
a pole of excellence for maritime research
and educational activities, technological
development and innovation.
Lisboa aims to build a sustained maritime
project, that will contribute to scaling the
city economically and which seeks to
take advantage of the sector’s transversal
nature, increasing synergies with the overall
economic activity of the city / region and,
taking advantage of the city’s unique qualities,
thus differentiating Lisboa from other cities,
regions and countries.
The Blueprint for the Sea Economy was
presented in December 2014.
Maritime Jobs in
Lisbon
(Region)
% of Maritime Jobs
Portugal
Maritime
Companies in
Lisbon (Region)
% of Maritime
Companies of
LIsbon in the Total
of Portugal
% of Maritime GVA
of Lisbon in the total
of Portugal
50.871 30 14.984 30 40
(Nº) (%) (%) (%) (%)
FIGURES ABOUT THE MARITIME ECONOMY OF
LISBON (2014)

Lisbon: Clusters Estratégicos
Health & Wellbeing Economy
In Portugal the GVA of the Healthcare and
Wellness Industry companies reached in
2014, 5,7% of the total GVA. The healthcare
and wellness industry is between two
major trends: an aging population and the
acelerated technological change.
For this reason, the growth potential of this
sector is very high, with new drugs coming
up every day and growing emerging areas
such as genomics, bioinformatics and health
IT’s.
The main institutions of the health
sector are in Lisboa, due to its strategic
position regarding the National Health
Service and having a wide and diverse
network of infrastructures and equipment,
welcoming several companies related to the
pharmaceutical sector.
In Lisbon are also around 32% of the
country’s research centers and 33% of
physicians. The Champalimaud Foundation,
the Gulbenkian Institute of Science and
the Ricardo Jorge Institute are just three
examples of the diversity and importance of
this sector in the dynamics of the city.
It should also be highlighted the fact that
Lisboa is undergoing a transformation
process regarding its hospital facilities,
with the closure of old hospitals in central
areas of the city and the opening of a large
central hospital designed for the eastern
area of the city which will be very important
to attract several business and investigation
actors in different areas of health sciences
(pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology,
pharmacogenomics, equipment and medical
instruments, medical clinics, among others).
Healtcare Jobs in
Lisbon
(Region)
Healthcare
Companies in
Lisbon
% Healthcare Jobs
Portugal
% of Healthcare
Companies in
Lisbon in the Total
of Portugal
% of Healthcare
GVA of Lisbon in the
total of Portugal
69.885 29.049 43,0 35,1 57,0
(Nº) (%) (%) (%) (%)
FIGURES FOR THE HEALTHCARE ECONOMY OF LISBON
(2014)

Digital Economy
Lisboa - city and metropolitan area - has
proved to be a very attractive place for the
opening of companies in the sectors of
ICT, Internet, Media and Audiovisual, and
Software industries.
Regarding the cities, ICT can give a decisive
contribution for economic sustainability
(through business competitiveness), social
and environmental. According to 2014 data,
4,5% of the employment in Lisboa was from
the ICT sector.
In the global world we live in, the
Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) are extremely important.
The volume, dispersion and flow of
information demand new solutions to
new (and old) problems. Safety, treatment,
management and broadcast of information,
are central themes.
The ICT impact goes through all sectors.
They play a key role, either by direct or
indirect way, in all areas of activity.
Lisboa has been able to attract a number of
leading international companies in the ICT
industry, software and internet, standing out
Fox, Google, Fujitsu, Ferrostaal, TVGlobo,
Huawei and Microsoft.
Given that the impact of ICT in modern
economies and cities translates into
investment, exports, employment (creation
and retaining talent) and research, Lisboa
City Council has been working with
several partners in order to enhance the
attractiveness and competitiveness of the
city in this sector.
Jobs in Lisbon
(Region)
Companies in
Lisbon
% Jobs of Lisbon
(Region) in Portugal
% of Digital
Companies in
Lisbon in the Total
of Portugal
% of Digital GVA of
Lisbon in the total of
Portugal
53.935 6.185 63,0 48,0 79,0
(Nº) (%) (%) (%) (%)
FIGURES FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY OF LISBON
(2014)

Commerce & Shopping in Lisbon
Trade is a key economic activity for the city
of Lisbon. However, this is an industry that
has committed over the past few years with
a difficult and complex reality.
The challenges that traditional trade faces
today are many and diverse, partly due to
the economic situation and the country’s
crisis in recent years, the proliferation of
large shopping centers and outlets, but
also because of the changing consumer
demands, rhythms, styles and lifestyles.
The modernization and adaptation to this
new reality are fundamental not only for
rethinking the spaces and concepts but
also by adopting new management and
sales techniques, merchandising and new
technologies.
CML has an ongoing series of projects
and initiatives in the area of trade, namely:
Lisbon Shopping Destination.
Lisbon Shopping Destination
Positioning of Lisbon as an international
shopping destination.
in the last two years with the opening of
66 new stores in the main areas of the
city such as Av. Da Liberdade, the Baixa,
Chiado, the Príncipe Real and R. Castilho.
The city of Lisbon occupies the 19th place
in the ranking of European cities with the
highest presence of international brands,
combining new prestigious shopping
streets associated with major international
brands with innovative concepts of national
entrepreneurship.
This strengthening of the shopping streets
in the city’s shopping profile plays a decisive
role in urban regeneration strategy of the
municipality and is an indicator that supports
the Lisbon strategy as an international
shopping destination (which instrument is
the Lisbon Shopping Destination program).
Examples: Cartier, Max Mara, Michael Kors,
Rimowa and Torres Jewelers, Avenida da
Liberdade and L’Oreal, Tous and Geox in
Chiado.

Lisbon Shopping Destination
The Lisbon Shopping Destination project is
part of the strategy for the promotion and
revitalization of the city trade and aims to
bridge the gap between the tourism (on
the rise) and trade and consumption, taking
advantage of the international demand, in
a time when the internal market has strong
restrictions on consumption.
This project takes advantage of the current
moment that the city lives, with the
large increase in tourism , to promote its
extension to areas most unknown of the
city, contributing not only for consumption
in these areas, but also to lower the pressure
that Lisbon feels in more touristic areas.
Lisbon Shopping destination, can now,
through its digital platform, promote and
show parts of the city and its shops like no
other site within this genre normally does,
for example Av. Roma, Benfica-Sete Rios or
Alvalade.
The site is an excellent platform to launch
and to promote UACS, parishes and partners
involved initiatives.
Founding Partners:
UACS – União das Associações de Comércio
e Serviços
Associações de Comerciantes: Liberdade,
Chiado, Baixa, Príncipe Real, Castilho, Bairro
Alto, São Bento e Santos (Santos Design
District)
ATL – Associação de turismo de Lisboa
APL – Administração do Porto de Lisboa
www.lisbonshopping.pt
Facebook - Lisbon Shopping Destination

Historical Retail Stores (Lojas com história)
Historical Retail Stores (Lojas com história)
The Lisbon Historical Stores Program is
aimed to promote local trade and traditional
shops of Lisbon.
Under the Lisbon’s strategy for promotion of
trade with a special approach to consolidate
traditional trade as a crucial element
in the commercial fabric of the city, in
which “ historic stores” take on a character
differentiator and are an affirmation mark in
the city, the conservation and enhancement
of this heritage is a design that requires
different and complementary measures.
The implementation of this project is based
on the basis of the relationship between
three areas of municipal activity (economics,
urban planning and culture) that would
establish a vision set that integrates the
different strands covered.
The “Shops with History” program aims
to trigger a reflection on the urban scale
economic activity and local commerce,
as well as the heritage and the imaginary
associated with traditional stores of Lisbon,
in order to support and promote local
traditional trade, through measures that
potentiate their growth and are generating
new business models and employment,
ensuring renewed continuation of an
industry with huge economic, patrimonial
and cultural value.

LISBON
INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIPS

Lisbon: International Economic Partnerships
The promotion of Lisbon in the international
context is part of the strategy for economic
recovery and attraction of investments
and structuring projects of the Lisbon City
Council.
The goal is to position Lisbon as one of
the most competitive, innovative and
creative cities in Europe, inserting it in
major international projects and networks
of cities, strengthening its position and
action in regional and global networks of
towns, which offer opportunities for creating
partnerships, which in the long-term will
generate employment and economic
growth.
Through economic cooperation in
international organizations and networks,
Lisbon becomes an increasingly global
city, fostering the growth of its economy,
expanding investment opportunities
internationally and promoting the identity of
the city and its competitive advantages.
The Euro Cities it is a network of major
European cities, which aims
to promote the exchange of best practices
and represent the interests of large
cities within the Community institutions,
promoting the inclusion of urban
requirements in European policies.
It was founded in 1986 by the mayors of
six major cities (Barcelona, Birmingham,
Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Rotterdam),
having extended in the first 5 years to 42
cities and integrating currently 140 cities
in over 30 countries. It is also a partner
to consult, with important contributions
and expertise in urban policies and in
development and implementation of
European policies and programs.

Lisbon: International Economic
Partnerships
Founded in Chicago in 1936, the Urban Land
Institute is a non-profit organization
profit dedicated to education and research
with over 30,000 members in 95 countries
around the world.
Its aim is to promote the responsible use of
land, identifying and providing solutions to
the common challenges to various cities
and regions, bringing together experts
from real estate areas and land use to
address urbanization issues, rural and urban
regeneration, public-private partnerships,
sustainable development and climate
change.
The Committee of the Regions is the
EU’s assembly of regional and local
representatives, which ensures the
institutional representation of all the
territories, regions, cities and municipalities
of the European Union.
Its mission is to involve regional and local
authorities in the European decision-making,
supporting the participation of citizens, with
the principle that cooperation between
the levels - European, national, regional
and local - it is essential to build a close
and supportive union among the peoples
of Europe and face the challenges of
globalization.

Lisbon: International Economic
Partnerships
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), is an
organization founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley
by a group of successful entrepreneurs,
executives and senior professionals with roots
in the Hindu region, whose mission is to foster
entrepreneurship. Dedicated to the virtuous
cycle of wealth creation and its distribution
by the community, TiE Global manages and
supports a new generation of entrepreneurs.
It’s more than 13,000 members, including
2,500 founding members, are present in 14
countries with 57 offices through which host
innovative projects through mentoring and
sharing of ideas and experiences. The group
regularly organizes a wide range of programs
and events such as, for example, the TiECon,
the largest professional networking conference
for entrepreneurs. TiE Portugal - Portugal may
be the next country with representation of TiE
Global. Potential investments of TiE Global
in Portugal will focus mainly in the areas of
telecommunications and renewable energy.
The Union of Capital Cities Luso-Afro-
Americo-Asian was created on June 28,
1985, with the founding member’s cities
of Bissau, Lisbon, Luanda, Macau, Maputo,
Beach, Rio de Janeiro and São Tomé / Água
Grande. The purpose of convening these
eight cities for a union of capital cities of
Portuguese language in four continents -
Africa, Asia, South America and Europe - was
to promote the exchange of experiences
and cooperation, and promote the sharing
of knowledge.
The constitution of UCCLA aimed to the
recovery and consolidation of ties of
solidarity that,
for centuries, they had settled among the
cities that were part, to allow the structuring
of a joint effort, towards the balanced
development of all of them.
The Leading Cities (formerly called “World
Class Cities Partnership”) is a global
network of business leaders, government,
academic, non-profit organizations and
citizens working to build partnerships for the
exchange of knowledge
on solutions to local challenges and finding
economic opportunities in the 21st century.
The “Leading Cities” strives to build more
competitive cities through public policy
analysis, taking advantage of opportunities
for economic development through
collaboration between the public and private
sectors and empowering individuals through
the involvement of citizens.

Lisbon Economy in Figures
Lisbon Economy in Numbers 2016
The research, obtainment, processing,
storage and systematic dissemination of
relevant strategic information that cuts
across various policy areas, is defined as
Economic Intelligence.
The City Council recognizes the importance
of this area as a contribution to build
competencies and competitive advantages
for cities and companies, create and
strengthen partnerships between the
actors of the city, improving cooperation
between the public and private sectors
and strengthening the economy through
knowledge and intangible capital.
Considering these needs a summary
document “Lisbon Economy in numbers”
is available on the Lisbon’s City Council
website and annually updated.
In a context of globalization, the demand for
strategic information becomes a necessity,
whether for the companies or for the
territories.
The effectiveness of economic development
depends on the collective capacity
(companies, state, universities, etc.) to
transform information into knowledge, hoping
to anticipate opportunities, risks, challenges
and emerging trends.

DIRECTORY OF PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS:
Lisbon City Council / Economy & Innovation: www.cm-lisboa.pt/en/business
Made of Lisboa: www.madeoﬂisboa.com
Startup Lisboa: www.startuplisboa.com
Invest Lisboa: www.investlisboa.pt
Lisbon Business Connections: www.lisbonconnections.pt
Study in Lisbon: www.studyinlisbon.pt/en/
Lisbon Shopping Destination: www.lisbonshopping.pt/en
Smart Open Lisboa: www.smartopenlisboa.com
BoaBoa Crowdfounding Lisboa: www.boaboa.pt
Lispolis: www.lispolis.pt
EDITION
Lisbon City Council
COORDINATION
General Direction for Economy and Innovation
TITLE
Lisboa - Economy and Innovation
DESIGN
Luis Isidro Correia
YEAR
2016

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