Turn a policy ambition into something an administration can actually run.

Ministries, agencies, municipalities and regional development bodies.

Strategies fail in implementation, not in drafting. We assess the ecosystem you actually have, design the instrument that fits it, and build the capacity in your own staff to keep it running after we leave.

Services

Three services, with the time each takes

Ecosystem assessment

An evidence-based read of the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem you govern: what exists, what is missing, and which gap is worth public money.

8–12 weeks Innovation →

AI governance for public administration

Procurement criteria, accountability structures, human oversight and the administrative capacity to operate them.

6–10 weeks AI governance →

Regional strategy & internationalisation

Positioning, talent attraction and international partnership design, built with academia, business and government at the same table.

Context

What is driving the question here

Innovation policy

Programme design and evaluation grounded in what the ecosystem can absorb, not what the strategy document says.

AI in administration

Procurement, accountability, human oversight and administrative capacity — institutional design, not abstract ethics.

Triple Helix

Getting academia, business and government into the same room and keeping them there past the launch event.

EU programmes

Positioning regional initiatives for European funding and consortium participation.

Case studies

Work in this sector

We wrote the internationalisation strategy for the Algarve Tech Hub with the University of Algarve, local government and business associations.

2026

Leading the change for AI in healthcare

Universidade do Algarve, Faculdade de Medicina e Ciências Biomédicas · AuroraMed

The healthcare AI session of an executive course run by AuroraMed with the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of the Algarve. Phibon designed and delivered the session on leadership, governance and organisational maturity.

Healthcare · Public sector

4 levelsA maturity model executives applied to their own organisation, live
2022

Algarve Tech Hub internationalisation strategy

Algarve Tech Hub · University of Algarve · local government

A twelve-month Triple Helix consultation to diversify a tourism-dependent regional economy, covering talent attraction, infrastructure and international partnerships.

Public sector · Scaleups & investors

12 monthsMulti-stakeholder strategic plan
2023

Algarve Tech Hub digital platform

Algarve Tech Hub initiative

Redesign of the ecosystem's digital platform around its actual users — companies, investors, digital nomads and academia — with SEO, UX and analytics rebuilt from the ground up.

Public sector · Scaleups & investors

Livealgarvetechhub.com
2025

AI & robotics for sustainable tourism

Algarve Evolution & The Icon, Lda.

Global trend analysis, regional case studies and cost-benefit assessment, turned into an implementation guide regional tourism operators can act on.

Public sector · SMEs & exporters

GuidePublished implementation roadmap
2023

Nordic wellbeing & sustainability programme

Northeastern University

Six lectures on subjective wellbeing, wellbeing economics and sustainability, built around the World Happiness Report and the OECD Better Life Index for an honours cohort.

Public sector · Healthcare

6 lecturesHonours elective, delivered in Denmark
Engagement formats

Three ways to start

Scoping review

2 weeks · fixed fee

We establish what you are actually deciding, what evidence you already hold, and whether the question needs us at all.

  • Two structured sessions with your team
  • Review of existing documentation and data
  • A written scope with options, effort and sequence

Assessment

6–10 weeks · fixed scope

A structured review against a defined standard — regulatory, methodological or strategic — returned as a prioritised action list rather than a report that sits on a shelf.

  • Baseline against the applicable framework
  • Benchmarking against comparable organisations
  • Findings ranked by exposure, with owners and sequence
  • A workshop handing the findings to the people who act on them

Retained advisory

6–12 months · monthly

For organisations under continuing regulatory or geopolitical pressure, where the question changes faster than a project can answer it.

  • Standing access for named decision-makers
  • Quarterly horizon briefings on your specific exposure
  • Board and committee material on request