Beira, Eduardo

Eduardo Beira is a Portuguese Polanyi scholar with an interest on innovation studies in historical context and philosophy of technology ans science. He translated the books of the philosopher Michael Polanyi and also some of the most recent books of the American philosopher Andrew Feenberg.

Beira is a chemical engineer (1974) and now is Senior Research Fellow at IN+, Centre for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, a cross-disciplinary research venue based in the Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon (Portugal). He retired as Associate Professor from University of Minho (Portugal) where he was also an EDAM (Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing) Professor and Industrial Liaison Officer.

He published more than a dozen of translations of technical and philosophical books and he is author or editor of more that thirty books, including three books with his photographies.