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Adespec
Efficient,
harmless water-based gluing products may take
recent graduate from incubator to the global market |
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Aflord
Flower
growers’ association invests on the genetic improvement
of Brazilian Rain Forest orchid as an alternative
for the off season |
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Aronis
Company
that created Dentalis tests new software for access
to dental records via Internet; product to be released
in 2007 |
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Arcadis
Hidro Ambiente
Developed
with PIPE’s aid, technology for assessing environmental
risks makes company competitive and attracts foreign
capital |
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Atmos
Digital
receiver for meteorological radar data is the bet
of
a small innovating company that already operates
two of them |
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BCS
Tecnologia
Pressure
valve for ICUs is the bet of the company that wants
10% of the market in the first year after launching
its product |
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Bio
Controle
Brazilian
nematodes: worms that kill sugarcane-eating insects
to be launched in the domestic market – and fields
– in 2007 |
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Bionova
Mudas e Plantas
Change
in focus ensures company’s survival; now instead
of
seedlings it’s the technology for propagation that’s
for sale! |
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Bioware
Company
develops technology for producing bio-oil from residues,
to be used for generating energy and in the chemical
industry |
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Brats
From dust
to metal: enterprise created by research experts
on material engineering produces metallic powders
in São Paulo |
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Bug
Agentes Biológicos
Wasps
and clothes moths for the internal market and the
external
market as well: company hopes to increase sales
threefold in 2008 |
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CATG
Centro de Genomas
New test
detects both the HIV and the hepatitis C viruses
in blood samples; transfusions will be safer, says
manufacturer |
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Camelback
Comércio de Pneus de Santos Ltda.
Machine
and software to control vulcanization process for
tires
will make company competitive in the world’s 2nd
largest market |
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Central
Brasileira de Comercialização e Distribuição de
Rã
Partners
follow intuition about the beneficial effects of
frog oil
and apply for funding to continue research and improve
sales |
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Cientistas
Associados
São
Carlos company gets its sixth loan from Fapesp;
this
time the concentration area is small size movable
robots |
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Clorovale
Diamante
With
technology developed at the National Institute of
Space
Research, company creates a dental drill that causes
no pain |
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Conceito
Tecnologia
Company
employs for voice transmission technology developed
for building automation as alternative to a phone
central office |
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Compsis
Company
that already monitors highways develops cargo truck
fleet management tool; business will increase threefold
in 2007 |
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Copol
Compostos Poliméricos
Equipment
that reuses plastic and aluminum from tetra pak
packages and investments on nanoparticle are the
company’s bases |
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DLG
Automação Industrial
Company was
created to supply sugar & alcohol industry; two
PIPEs helped it grow and lead its business towards
agriculture |
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Dynamis
With
technology used in the development of an amusement
park
equipment, company is going to build efficient wind
generators |
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Eina
— Estudos em Inteligência Natural e Artificial.
Project
to support learning for children with deficiency
was
completed, but schools never adopted it, author
complains |
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Electrocell
Research
to reduce size and price – and increase efficacy
– of
fuel cells can place company in the future hydrogen
economy |
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Eletrovento
Graduated
in early 2006 from an incubator, company bets on
an original business model to produce efficient
wind generators |
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Embrarad
Research
project that modifies plastic increases business
and technological capacity of gamma ray irradiation
company |
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Empresa
Brasileira de Peixe
Research
for improved tilapia develops new hybrid that replaces
fish imported from Israel; product will reach the
market in June |
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Enalta
With
new productivity monitor, Brazilian sugarcane culture
is
now on the verge of entering the era of precision
agriculture |
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Farmacore
Pesquisa & Desenvolvimento em Biotecnologia Ltda.
New
product is a bet to enter the market of medicines
for TB;
patent request, with the University of São Paulo,
is under ways |
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Femto
With
a history of innovation, manufacturer of spectrophotometers
uses loans to develop new technology for competitive
products |
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Fungibras
Indústria e Comércio em Fungicultura Ltda.
Production
process based on equipment developed with PIPE’s
aid
expands both company’s market and mushroom cultivation
in Brazil |
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Geodados
Amount
of funds given by PIPE’s program gave the company
a basis of how valuable the products it has developed
really are |
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Genoa
Veterinária
Cheap,
quick test to determine animal parentage will be
in the
market in 2008; intention is to compete with imported
tests |
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Globalmag
Thanks
to measurement precision and customer-tailored products,
company in the area of magnetic instrument grows
30% a year |
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Griaule
Biometrics
company’s success story combines incubation,
qualified professionals and financing from public
agencies |
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HyTron
Young
company is developing equipment that extracts hydrogen
from ethanol and natural gas; technology is strategic
for Brazil |
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Heranza
Equipamentos para Laboratórios
Ribeirão
Preto company is developing a molecular diagnostic
test
for disease endemic to the region transmitted to
dogs by ticks |
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Holophotonics
Equipamentos Ópticos e Eletrônicos Ltda.
Sensor
that won’t go off with small animals is innovating
product
optics company from the interior of São Paulo has
developed |
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Informação,
Tecnologia e Desenvolvimento (IT&D)
Inventor
says that system that transmits images from swimmer
underwater hasn’t been built yet but interests a
multinational |
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Inovamat
Inovação em Materiais
São
Carlos company develops process that gives plaster
concrete
resistance and can be used in buildings up to ten
stories high |
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Inter-Metro
Laboratório de Calibração
Company
develops system for checking the precision of audiometry
tests; 90% of the devices used in Brazil require
adjustment |
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Jackie-O
Indústria e Comércio
Researcher
starts new company to continue developing colored
gold alloys; Brazil’s jewelry market is worth US$
2.5 billion |
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Khemia
Equipamentos Tecnológicos de Efluentes Ltda.
Company
bets on the market’s slow technological advance
and
develops recovery device for silver used in photographic
processes |
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Kom
Montagens e Comércio Ltda.
Optical
fiber blanket to fight jaundice was the first PIPE
project;
with the product approved, a partner company is
selling it |
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Lasertools
and its coordinator, Spero Morato
Born
and raised at a research institute, company is a
market
leader; “technology is no guarantee to success,”
says partner |
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Linkgen
Detection
of diseases through DNA analysis is the next bet
of this pioneering company in genetic tests for
animals |
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Match
Report
Young
entrepreneurs develop tool that automates data collection
for the analysis of players’ performance during
matches
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MRA
Indústria de Equipamentos Eletrônicos
Research
makes of company Brazil’s only manufacturer of
radiation detectors and owner of the first private
calibration center
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Nanocore
Biotecnologia
State
bank invests US$ 1.5 million in company that will
launch
anticancer drug by 2009; history is marked by PIPE’s
projects |
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Oncocell
Biotecnologia
Thoroughbred
horse market is target of vaccine against skin
cancer developed after similar product already used
in humans |
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Omnisys
French
radar giant Thales buys 51% of Omnisys, a São Paulo
engineering company pioneer in Brazilian-made radars |
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Opto
At
20, a successful manufacturer of precision optical
instruments
gears to compete in the US market of ophthalmologic
products |
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Optolink
Photonics
company trusts that it will grow again with digital
TV and the future expansion of fiber-to-the-home
systems |
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Orbital
Engenharia
PIPE
funding made possible the development of technology
of
solar panels for satellites that are used in Brazil’s
space program |
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Orbys
Company
licenses nanotechnology patent from university;
the idea
is to compete in a market estimated in US$ 50 billion
by 2020 |
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PHB
With
operations planned to start in 2008, the new plant
will produce
Biocycle, a biodegradable plastic using sugar as
raw material |
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Proclone
Biologist’s
company competes in Brazil’s flower market; Fapesp’s
support seven years ago made technical improvements
possible |
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Proqualit
In
Brazil’s fast-growing subscription TV market, company
that
supplies electronic components for operators grows
30% a year
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Proteogenética (formerly Hormogen Biotecnologia)
Partnership
with large company fails, but this innovating small
business
hasn’t given up: it changed names and now wants
to make new products |
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Rick
Soluções
Automobile
engine converted into aircraft’s cheaply; company
wants PIPE in order to compete with product imported
from the U.S. |
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STQ
São Paulo
company uses patented process to make drug
against hypertension release progressively its active
principle |
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Sun
Quartz
Young
company that “lives” in Unicamp’s School of Mechanical
Engineering develops technology in the area of optical
fibers |
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Tecam
Laboratories
Successful
company of laboratory analyses in products awaits
definition of GMO labeling in Brazil in order to
grow more |
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Technopulp
Industrial Ltda
Project
from PIPE’s first group of businesses results in
three patent
requests for company focused on the sugar & alcohol
sector |
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Torr
Focused
on the development of successful blood pressure
monitor, the
company forgot about the competition and health
regulations. Now what? |
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Tramppo
Company
develops equipment that prevents pollution by fluorescent
light
bulbs; market depends on the popularization of the
concept of recycling |
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Unitech
Company’s
strong point is its founder’s experience, acquired
in
years of research abroad, with all the components
of fuel cells |
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VacuoFlex
Metallic
yet flexible, film that helps keeping temperatures
down is already available in the Brazilian market |
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Vocalize
Soluções em Tecnologias da Fala e da Linguagem
With
PIPE’s help, prototype of software that puts voice
in written
words in Portuguese will be presented to the market
in July |
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WhitePix
Sistemas Computacionais
Company
created to be a licensee of Embrapa Instrumentação
plans
to launch portable tomographer in 2008 with resources
from PIPE |
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