Archive for 2007
Brazilian pharmaceutical companies
Understanding the innovation pattern of medium and large size brazilian pharmaceutical companiesProduct innovation or business innovation? What should companies follow? Based on products and business innovation concepts and Concurrent Engineering (CE),.
Condor flare parachute
The brazilian Condor S.A. Indústria Química developed a flare parachute, capable to help the Navy in nocturnal searches in the sea or the policy to face dealers in mounts. The part illuminates the target for 30 seconds. The company waits authorization.
Marshall Casimiro Montenegro
To break resistances was a mark of the life of Marshall Casimiro Montenegro. In 1930, militant of the Tenentismo (Brazilian rebel movement), Montenegro took a air fighter in the Campos dos Afonsos airbase, in Rio de Janeiro, and flied to Minas Gerais.
Nanox Tecnologia
NANOX TECNOLOGIA S/A is a company that develops nanotechnology solutions. Its aim is to develop and produce surface treatment solutions, oxide synthesis and nanometric metals, aiming at improving surface properties. NANOX®’s coatings can be applied to.
Movimento Brasil Competitivo
Movimento Brasil Competitivo (www.mbc.org.br) was created by a group of Brazilian leaderships in November of 2001 and is recognized as Public Interest Non-governmental Organization (OSCIP), devoted to the stimulaton and the promotion of the development.
Pam Membranas Seletivas
Pam Membranas Seletivas is growing for uniting environment protection to cost reduction. The company, who was born in Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Incubator, manufactures microfiltration membranes to treat effluent and, thus, to reuse.
Brazilian Space Agency
The Brazilian Space Agency (Agência Espacial Brasileira) is the civilian authority in Brazil that is in charge of the country's burgeoning space program. It operates a rocket launch site at Alcântara. Its location near the equator means that less energy.
Ipiranga Group
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, Ultra group, in the gas, chemical and transport sector, and petrochemical company Braskem signed an agreement to acquire the businesses of Ipiranga group. The value of the operation will be US$ 4 billion. Ipiranga operates.
National Biotechnology Programme
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree today (8) outlining a development policy for the biotechnology industry in the country implementing a national program to become the global leader in biotechnology in 10 to 15 years. The country's.
Brazilian automotive companies
Companies with 100% Brazilian capital are entering in the automotive market. That is the case with company Tecnologia Automotiva Catarinense - TAC, from the southeastern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, which is developing jeep Stark, which means.
Innovative Brazil book
The National Agency for Financing Studies and Researches - Finep has launched the book "Innovative Brazil, the Enterprising Challenge", where success stories of the 40 more innovative brazilian companies are listed. Companies like Petrobras, Embraer,.
Adapter for helmets and earplugs
The helmet adapter is one of the company’s top-of-the-line products. It is characterized by especially innovative features such as a lever and bending system, using torsion springs with a spin gauged to move the earplugs backwards. It also has a smaller.
Brazil innovation and environment
Since the 70s, environmental movements have discussed the impact of technological advance upon the planet ecosystem. With notions such as environmental impacts and risks in mind, environmental sociology has pointed out many effects of modern technologies.
O Boticário
O Boticário was created in 1977 as a small prescription drugstore in the city of Curitiba, capital of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. Today the company is the world’s largest perfumery and cosmetics franchising network. It has 2,114 stores.
Calçados Azaleia
Headquarter in Parobe, Rio Grande do Sul, 80 kilometres from the capital of the Southern State, Porto Alegre. Calçados Azaleia has three main production units at Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia and Sergipe, besides that Azaleia has trade representatives in.
