FAPESP PIPE - 20 years of innovation | December 2017

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Celebrating 20 years of the FAPESP Technological Innovation in Small Businesses (PIPE) program

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz | Scientific Director, FAPESP

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Brazil’s leading innovation support program

Since its inception, the PIPE Program has funded nearly 2,000 R&D projects at small and medium-sized businesses in São Paulo

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Precursor of change

In the 1990s, the PIPE program paved the way for innovation support tools that are now well established in Brazil

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The source of inspiration

American SBIR program was used as a model for PIPE and similar initiatives in other countries