Innovation and technology transfer

With a focus on innovation, we collaborate to bring specialists from the most renowned science parks in the UK to discuss with their peers in Brazil issues of mutual interest in the areas of technology transfer, university-industry collaboration and intellectual property rights protection. Find below some examples of activities in this area.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Innovation Management Lecture:
25th June 2008

Professors Howard Rush and David Francis, will give a lecture on Innovation Management, followed by a cocktail at the British Council in Rio de Janeiro. Read more about the event, a partnership between British Council and FINEP.

PAST EVENTS

Mission: "Frontiers of Management and Innovation"
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FINEP project
We collaborate with FINEP - Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos - to develop Brazil-UK networks in innovation and technology transfer. In June 2005 four FINEP Innovation Award prize-winners travelled to the UK to visit technology transfer centres and network with their UK peers.

Learn more reading the article, or watching the video.

For further information on the FINEP project please contact science.rj@britishcouncil.org.br.

New Challenges to Innovation
Lecture with professors Howard Rush and David Francis, from CENTRIM, Univertisty of Brighton.
23 March 2006, in Rio de Janeiro

Biotechnology in the South of Brazil
We have been working since 1995 with partners in Paraná, exploring the developments of technology transfer.

2nd Biotechnology Seminar - November 2006.
For further information on activities in the area of innovation and technology transfer, please contact science.sp@britishcouncil.org.br.