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INPI for Business Program delivers its first results
In the year of its fiftieth anniversary, INPI expanded its business focus by launching the INPI for Business Program in 2020 in order to promote the use of industrial property by agents of the Brazilian innovation system. The first results of the new initiative are beginning to appear. Based on the mapping of innovation clusters in the Brazilian health sector made by INPI researchers within the scope of the cooperation agreement executed with the Brazilian Research and Industrial Innovation Enterprise – EMBRAPII, 15 projects were contracted up to October 2020, amounting to BRL 7.2 million.
Another activity developed by the partnership is a mentoring with EMBRAPII offices, which resulted in 34 registrations of software, 22 industrial designs, 16 invention patents, one utility model and one technology transfer.
INPI for Business’s developments were disclosed during Science Meet Business (SciBize), held from November 16 to 19 by the School of Economics, Business and Accounting of the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
For the general coordinator of INPI’s Dissemination for Innovation, Felipe Oliveira, the Covid-19 pandemic stressed the importance of innovation and industrial property as pillars for the socio-economic development of the countries. In this context, INPI for Business has been working through associations in the fields of creation, protection and commercialization of IP assets to boost the transformation of knowledge into goods and services for the society.