"When it comes to research, it is highly dependent on funding from the FCT and international projects. I would say there are two main issues: one is underfunding by the FCT, but above all, the inability of schools to join forces to secure competitive European funding. Individually, they cannot achieve this, but forming consortia with the necessary scale for projects, always in connection with companies, is very interesting. Business schools in Portugal have more to gain by collaborating rather than by competing."
Read here the full interview to João Pinto, Dean of Católica Porto Business School, published in Executive Digest. (available in portuguese)
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