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Das ideias às coisas: Isabel Marrucho at TEDxAveiro

680 views · Published 24 July 2013 · 16:39 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Isabel Marrucho tells us at TEDxAveiro about innovation in the past, present in future. She tells us about innovation in Portugal, comparing it with other EU countries, and what is missing, as well as about policy of innovation in Portugal. Through many practical examples, she explains that innovation is not just a natural process or happens with a help of some magic and miracle, but we have to educate to innovate. How? We need: creativity, technology know how and, our ability to work in interdisciplinary groups.

Isabel Marrucho was born in Lisbon. She got her degree in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. The interest in Physical Chemistry, the subject that ties and justifies life, was due to Professor Jorge Calado classes. The 4 long years of PhD in a small cowboys town in the USA opened new horizons. The Friday nights spent with Blues divas and hot nachos revealed the jazz and the blues; the lack of the sea developed the taste for mountain hiking, which usually ended with the sun set at the Rockies; the fluffy and silent snow brought the ski. However, the melting port was not sufficiently attractive to begin a family and she came back to Portugal where she had 3 kids. The fortune brought her to the University of Aveiro, the most American campus in Portugal. There, she started a research group in Applied Termodynamics, with interests in the development of new products. Some of the research themes are fluorinated solvents, biodegradable polymers, biofuels, emulsions and encapsulation. 

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