The ESA Business Incubation Centre Portugal was launched at the fifth Portuguese Space Forum, 5 November 2014. From left: Prof. Teresa Mendes (IPN President of the Board of Directors), Prof. João Gabriel Silva (Rector of University of Coimbra), Dr Franco Ongaro (ESA Director of Technical and Quality Management), Prof. António Pires de Lima (Portuguese Minister of Economy), Prof. Nuno Crato (Portuguese Minister of Education and Science) and Pedro Carneiro (Vice President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), which is the national funding agency for science, technology and innovation.