This axis fosters increased economic productivity through technological innovation and professional qualification. It promotes more complex products and processes with higher added value, strengthening production chains, and generating qualified, well-paying jobs.
To achieve this, it encourages neo-industrialization by inducing strategic public and private investments, implementing national content policies for innovation, and prioritizing government procurement in key sectors. It supports funding for research, development, and innovation (R&D&I) in new productive ecosystems within the low-carbon economy. Additionally, it stimulates the domestic processing of primary products and sustainable national production, leveraging renewable energy and specialized labor.
Key Actions:
- The initiatives include expanding and reorienting public research and development funds, such as the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FNDCT), towards ecological transformation. This involves the use of technological procurement and other innovation tools, as well as the adoption of well-calibrated local content rules for government purchases in energy transition and sustainable mobility. Notable measures also include incentives for the domestic processing of strategic minerals, agricultural products, and inputs, strengthening production chains and creating qualified jobs. Furthermore, the New Legal Framework for Innovation enhances research partnerships between the government and the private sector.
- Specific programs are being implemented to integrate research institutes with the productive sector, properly structuring Technological Innovation Centers (NITs) and aligning high-level workforce training with local production arrangements. These actions are connected to the New Industry Brazil (NIB), which encompasses six missions focusing on fostering sustainable agriculture, the bioeconomy, decarbonization, and energy transition.
Axis 2: Technological Densification
- FNDCT (National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development) with restored federal resources for R&D&I, featuring clear missions that are integrated with the productive sector and focused on ecological transformation
- New Industry Brazil, a neo-industrialization program with strategic missions
- National Technological Challenges to drive innovation
- Tariff, credit, and R&D&I policies aimed at boosting strategic sectors, with set targets, timelines, supply chain mapping, and alignment with the New Industry Brazil
- Local content requirements in public procurement related to energy transition and sustainable mobility
- Innovative and Sustainable Universities and Institutes for innovation and qualified workforce training
- Brazilian Reference Rate (TR) for innovation with competitive interest rates to finance innovation
- International Cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute