José Carlos Caldeira is advisor of the Presidency of INESC TEC.

He is member of the MANUFUTURE High Level Group and Chairman of its Implementation Support Group. He is also member of the Board of EFFRA – European Factories of the Future Research Association.

He is invited professor at Porto Faculty of Economics, on Innovation Policies.  

Between October 2014 and January 2018, he was the President of ANI – the Portuguese National Innovation Agency. During this period, he was responsible for the coordination of the national RIS3 strategy and for the mapping of the national network of technological infrastructures.