Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) is a non-profit private organization for innovation and technology transfer based in Coimbra, Portugal.
It is named after the Portuguese 16th century mathematician and professor Pedro Nunes, who lived in the city of Coimbra and worked for the local university.
Nowadays, a private non-profit business incubator, IPN work is made through partnership with enterprises, specialized training and promotion and support to tech-based spin-offs.
The main services area is consulting, engineering geology and soil mechanical characterization, based on the execution of research and field and laboratory tests.
LABGEO aims to contribute to a general quality improvement on the construction of Geotechnical structures, through applied research and services development in the area of Geotechnique.