Catalogue: City Innovation Library clear
Most practices in: Brazil (16)
Curitiba's 1974 Rede Integrada de Transporte, the world's first true Bus Rapid Transit system, now carries roughly 2 million passenger trips a …
Porto Alegre's 1989 invention of neighbourhood budget assemblies raised sewer/water coverage from 75% to 98% of households by 1997 and became the …
SEBRAE, FGV and GRADE ran a four-arm field trial with 790 informal microentrepreneurs in Rio's Complexo Maré favela (2018). In-person visits with …
Porto Digital is a triple-helix ICT and creative-economy cluster in historic Recife Antigo. By 2024, 475 companies employed 21,551 people, generating R$ …
Brazil's federal EMBRAPII co-funds R&D between research institutes and firms, splitting risk three ways. A first evaluation of 179 funded firms found …
A technology and creative-economy district in Recife's historic port quarter, growing from a 2000 founding to 340+ companies, 21,551 jobs and R$6.2 …
Brazil's Embrapa runs a formal four-phase technology-transfer and impact-assessment pipeline for its agricultural research. Its 2021 evaluation of 152 projects found R$18 …
Built in 8 months after a deadly 2010 landslide, Rio's Centro de Operações e Resiliência (COR) fuses 50+ agencies' data into one …
Created in 1986 by Fundação CERTI as Brazil's first tech-business incubator, CELTA has graduated 118 companies generating ~800 direct jobs and R$67m/year …
Curitiba's IPPUC planning institute, running since 1965, now operates 'Hipervisor', a real-time cross-department data platform that helps the city anticipate flooding and …
A Brazilian public 'social organisation' co-funding pre-competitive industrial R&D one-third each from EMBRAPII, the company and the research unit, hitting a record …
Brazil's first university innovation agency (est. 2003) manages UNICAMP's 1,293 active patents and 212 licensing agreements; patent filings rose 70% in 2024, …
Latin America's largest corporate innovation hub (est. 2015), co-founded by Itaú Unibanco and Redpoint eventures in Vila Olímpia, São Paulo. 500+ curated …
Apex-Brasil's PEIEX has qualified 30,000+ Brazilian SMEs for export in 20+ years; its 2021–23 cohort moved 827 of 5,334 firms into exporting, …
Rio de Janeiro's flagship in-situ favela-upgrading programme (1994–2008) delivered streets, drainage and services without removing residents; a peer-reviewed evaluation found service-access gains …
Brazil's MCTI/Softex ran Start-Up Brasil (2013-2019), a national accelerator offering R$200k non-dilutive grants and reserving up to 25% of slots for foreign …
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