Posts Tagged "innovation"
Brazilian Innovation: Online Litigation
Timizzer.com - Many companies cause a lot of damage to Brazilian consumers. Most of them prosecute those companies: yearly five million Brazilian consumers seek support to their rights in the courts. However, the number of people suing companies could be significantly bigger as many of them are afraid to get out of their comfort zones and disrupt bureaucracy in the country. New startup is revolutionizing the common trend…
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Read MoreBrazilian government invests US$ 250 bln on startups, by Leonardo Gottems
Timizzer.com - The Brazilian government has released a plan on Monday in São Paulo to stimulate the technology through an investment of US$ 250 billion on startups until 2015. The program, called TI Maior(Major IT) or Strategic Program for Softwares and Services of TI, has a target of 900,000 new jobs in the sector and to double the revenue of software developers. A training for 50,000 professionals will be sponsored by the government. The move is part of Brazil’s National Strategy to Science, Technology, and Innovation.
The investment for each new company will not be over US$ 100,000. About 150 startups will benefit by the new program…
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Read MoreBrazil looks to Israeli model to boost startups, by Leonardo Gottems
Timizzer.com - In a summit held this week at the Israeli Federation of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, many experts talked about the policies which boosted technology in Israel over the last years and how it could be implemented to improve the lives of Brazilians as well.
The deputy secretary of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Rio Grande do Sul, Ghissia Hauser, stated that much of the technologies use in irrigation in Israel not just to avoid the waste of water, but to improve productivity in agriculture…
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