S&T Policy

Information technology

Close Ties

Microsoft expands cooperation with Brazilian researchers

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Innovation

Orchestra rehearsal

States of the Southeast coordinate a common agenda for development

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Indicators

Accident along the way

A contraction in the economy has limited technological advance in Brazil

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Intellectual property

Getting Stronger

Countries seek measures to protect biodiversity

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Federal Government

A physicist at the head of the ministry

Sergio Rezende assumes Science and Technology

Profile

The teacher of many generations

Walter Accorsi Radames remains active in Esalq

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Ecology

Under new management

Law authorizes private management of public forest to contain deforestation

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Legislation

Battle in the courts

Law that permits the use of embryonic stem cells is contested

Federal Government

Fast lane

A new bill speeds up measures to stimulate technological innovation

Engineering

The waters are going to roll

Transposition of the São Francisco river stirs up polemics

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Nuclear Medicine

Vanguard diagnosis in all corners

A company must expand the production of radiopharmaceuticals

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Investments

Mapping innovation

Third edition of FAPESP's Indicators registers increase in spending on S&T

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Telecommunications

The light partners

The KyaTera Project integrates dozens of laboratories by way of optical fibers

Inclusion

The multiplication of ideas

Network wants to spread useful technologies to poor communities

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Government

Heterodox model

The university reform proposal changes bureaucratic structures

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Publication

Pasteur’s Quadrant

Book reviews pact between the scientific community and government

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Virology

Without secrets

Team describes a virus associated to the citrus sudden death

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Government

Strategic plan

The Innovation Incentive Law wants to make researchers hiring easier

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Environment

It is getting hot

A book raises the fight about man's action on global warming

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Budget

Consolidated equilibrium

FAPESP starts off 2005 with financial liquidity of R$ 178. 2 million

Rationalization

Phasing out

SAGe will abolish the use of paper processes at the Foundation

Environment

A climate of uncertainty

The Kyoto Protocol comes into force some eight years behind schedule

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Financing

Sponsoring excellence

Impa widens its commitments and creates chairs paid for by businessmen

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Entrepreneurial Companies

Initial Capital

Twenty PIPE companies prepare to take their projects to the market

Environment

The price of deforestation

Inventory ranks Brazil amongst the largest polluters in the world

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Partnership

Incentive for innovation

Minister Eduardo Campos foresees greater investment in 2005

Computerization

Electronic processes

SAGe brings agility to the requests for scholarships and grants for research

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Support

The challenge to dare

International commission assesses the ten Cepids

Biothecnology

Signs of vigor

Achievements and partnerships highlight the Brazilian advances

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environment

Protection for biodiversity

Biota-Pará Project draws up list of species threatened with extinction