Categoria: BNDES
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Alarmantes 40% das crianças no Brasil vivem na pobreza e vem piorando
Pobreza: trabalho infantil diminuiu entre 10 e 17 anos, mas aumentou na faixa etária de 5 a 9 anos Cerca de 17 milhões de crianças até 14 anos – o que equivale a 40,2% da população brasileira nessa faixa etária – vivem em domicílios de baixa renda. No Norte e no Nordestes, regiões que apresentam…
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Pacote de inovação injetará R$ 100 milhões na economia, segundo o governo
Mais de R$ 100 milhões serão injetados em recursos em inovação na economia por meio de uma série de parcerias e chamadas públicas anunciadas pela Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa e Inovação Industrial (EMBRAPII), na última sexta-feira (17/03), durante reunião da Mobilização Empresarial pela Inovação (MEI), em São Paulo (SP). Entre as…
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Europe is losing the global innovation race
Unless the European Commission changes its attitude, the innovation gap between Europe and the US will likely increase, and it could be overtaken soon by China, with dire consequences for living standards, warns Philip Stevens. Philip Stevens is director of Geneva Network, a UK-based research organisation focusing on innovation, trade and health policy. The European…
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Innovation is thriving in British Columbia / Canada
Minister Bains concludes successful three-day tour of B.C., announces funding for local innovative businesses VANCOUVER, March 15, 2017 /CNW/ – Innovation is thriving across Canada, from developing clean energy technologies for creating alternative sources of fuel, to enhancing pharmaceutical discovery processes for combatting major diseases, to modernizing communications systems that will increase public transit safety.…
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Bilionário produtor de cashmere dá show de empreendedorismo
SOLOMEO, ITÁLIA — “A beleza salvará o mundo”. Esta citação do escritor russo Fiódor Dostoiévski aparece na primeira página do site da Brunello Cucinelli, a mais importante companhia de moda italiana especializada em cashmere. Logo em seguida, há uma imagem do fundador homônimo com a frase “O grande sonho da minha vida sempre foi…
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The state of bank innovation in 5 charts
Major banks have been doing more work with the startups that once tried to displace them. Most other banks, with fewer customers and less capital, are still figuring out their long-term digital strategies. In the last two to three years, banking giants have invested in fintech startups and partnered with them, they’re opening expensive new innovation labs and digital hubs and…
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Juniper Networks_Accelerate Innovation
SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – March 07, 2017) – Juniper Networks (JNPR), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced a new organizational structure to support its innovation transformation strategy. To increase alignment between strategy and execution, Juniper has created a new position of Strategy and Product Line Management, senior vice president, and has appointed Kevin…
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Airbnb levanta US$ 1 bilhão em rodada de financiamento
A Airbnb informou nesta quinta-feira que levantou 1 bilhão de dólares em uma rodada de financiamento, o que levou o valor da companhia para 31 bilhões de dólares. A empresa captou 447,85 milhões de dólares, afirmou à Reuters uma fonte próxima da Airbnb. Em setembro, a empresa disse que tinha levantado cerca de 555 milhões de dólares,…
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When empowering women, we must include men
Hundreds looked on as proud young men, decked out in crisp uniforms, led their parents onto the campus that will help unlock their future. This January, the Kisaruni group of girls’ schools in Kenya’s Maasai Mara unveiled its first all-boys high school. After the opening ceremony, village elders christened it with a name. They chose Ngulot,…
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China pledges to transform, upgrade real economy through innovation
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China will make greater efforts this year to implement innovation-driven development strategy, upgrade the structure of the real economy, and improve its performance and competitiveness, a government work report said Sunday. “The real economy has always been the foundation of China’s development; the task we now face is to speed…
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