News - Brazil BNDES Sees BRL43.3 Billion Investment In Innovation In 2010

RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones)- Brazil’s investment in innovation is likely to reach 1.5% or 1.6% of gross domestic product next year, Luciano Coutinho, president of the National Development Bank, or BNDES, said Monday.

According to BNDES, 1.5% of GDP is the equivalent of 43.3 billion Brazilian reals ($22.7 billion).

In recent years, Brazil had been spending between 1.1% and 1.3% of GDP in supporting scientific research and development, Coutinho said.

“We plan to push this amount up to 2% in the next few years and get closer to other emerging markets such as China, Korea and Taiwan, who spend over 2.5%,” Coutinho said.

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News - GM to spend $1 billion in Brazil on new family of cars

BRASILIA (Reuters) - General Motors unveiled plans on Wednesday to spend about $1 billion in Brazil through 2012 to develop a new family of vehicles for South America, a priority market for the U.S. automaker as it looks to rebound from bankruptcy protection.

GM plans to invest the bulk of the money at its Gravatai factory in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, which it will expand to increase production capacity, Jaime Ardila, GM’s chief executive for Brazil and the Mercosur region of South America, said in a statement.

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News - Technology transfer key to climate deal: Brazil

GENEVA (AFP) — An international agreement against climate change could hinge around steps to ease the transfer of green technology to developing countries, a Brazilian official said on Monday.

His comments at a World Intellectual Property Organisation conference came amid signs of a rift between rich and poor nations over the best approach to take on patented technology that can be used to tackle global warming.

“The key message is that a fair agreement on technology transfer is crucial to seal the deal in Copenhagen,” said Haraldo de Oliviera Machado Filho, a senior advisor in Brazil’s government committee on climate change.

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News - Brazil to Invest 1.5% of GDP in Technological Innovation in 2010

BRASILIA, Brazil, July 9 /PRNewswire/ — The Brazilian government announced that it expects to invest approximately 1.5 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in advancing science, technology and innovation in 2010. Based on Brazil’s 2008 GDP figures, that would correspond to R$ 43.3 billion. As part of this investment, private enterprises are expected to represent 0.65 percent of the GDP.

“We are committed to encouraging and expanding academic and business partnerships to stimulate regional technological development, increase business competitiveness and contribute to job creation,” said Guilherme Henrique Pereira, secretary for Technological Development and Innovation, Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT). “Brazil has both leading academic institutions, as well as competitive entrepreneurs. We are working to combine the strengths of both forces to boost research and innovation activities in strategic areas throughout the country.”

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Article - Brazil Puts Desktops in Every One of Its 5,560 Cities. Over 350.000 of Them

Brazil is installing 356,800 virtualized desktops in schools in all of Brazil’s 5,560 municipalities. This initiative should provide computer access to millions of children and adolescents throughout the country.

The measure is being called a historical achievement. It’s the world’s largest ever virtual desktop deployment; the world’s largest ever desktop Linux deployment, and a new record low-cost for PCs with the PC sharing hardware and software costing less than $50 per seat.

Using Userful and ThinNetworks’ low-cost and environmentally friendly desktop virtualization solution the Brazilian Ministry of Education wishes to become a global leader in computer education.

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