CeNTI, the Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart materials, is a private non-profit R&D institute placed in Portugal, that provides applied R&D for industrial endogenization of new disruptive technologies, product engineering and upscale of innovative functional & smart materials and devices for companies via a B2B approach. CeNTI’s mission is to drive the development of material solutions for product innovation across multi-TRL stages, specifically in areas encompassing Nanomaterials, Functional Materials, Smart Materials and Systems, Design and Engineering, targeting a wide range of applications in industrial sectors such as automotive/aeronautics, architecture/construction, and sport/personal protection/health and well-being. In the past 15 years of activity, CeNTI developed more than 170 projects and registered more than 60 patent applications related to 28 patent families (as owner, co-owner or staff inventor). Additionally, CeNTI has been actively involved as a member in several national and European technological platforms and industrial clusters, namely E2B - ECTP, OE-A, ETP-TC, Cluster Sustainable Habitat Portugal, MOBINOV – Automobile Cluster Portugal, Textile Cluster Portugal, Health Cluster Portugal, Pool-Net – Portuguese Cluster for Tooling Sector, TICE – Portuguese Cluster for ICT Industry Consortium, and several Standardization Technical Committees.