Tomé Canas works in product development and innovation management at Brisa Innovation and Technology, a company from Brisa group, the main Portuguese highway company, where he is the innovation system manager. He is a mechanical engineer (2000) and is also a Master in Science in Engineering Design (2007), both at Instituto Superior Técnico – UTL. He also made the post-graduations "Prospective, Strategy and Innovation" at the Institute of Economics and Management - UTL (2009) and "Business Management Program (PDE)" on AESE (2011).

As a strong believer in innovation, he is involved with the project “Sustained Innovation of Company Development”, a COTEC initiative, and is also member of the CT169, a technical commission for Innovation Management.

He is author and co-author of several papers related with product development, innovation management and enterprises-universities relations. He holds one Portuguese patent.