INNOVATION
SEBRAE/RJ SEBRAE is the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service, a non-profit national private entity with the mission of promoting the sustainable and competitive development of small businesses. Sebrae’s role is to foster entrepreneurship, providing guidance to help small businesses to grow and generate more employment, helping to develop the Brazilian economy. In 2017, Sebrae completed 45 years of existence, focusing on strengthening entrepreneurship and accelerating the process of formalization of the economy through partnerships with the public and private sectors, training programs, access to credit and innovation, encouragement of associativism, fairs and business rounds. Sebrae/RJ is the office of Sebrae in the State of Rio de Janeiro. “The challenges that humanity faces in this century lead us to a race for the development of solutions, innovative processes and disruptive technologies. Micro and small companies with technological and scientific base position themselves as agents of
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Miriam Ferraz, International Affairs, Sebrae/RJ
transformation as they manage to generate these solutions. Sebrae/RJ, as a strategy to support innovation and technological development, aims to support these companies to transform knowledge and research into profitable, scalable business models, and consequently to insert their technologies in the international market. This support has allowed us to achieve quite expressive results, with several licensing, investment and export operations carried out in the first two years of the project. Therefore, the support of Sebrae/RJ allows the development of businesses of high impact and global scale.” Miriam Ferraz, International Affairs, Sebrae/RJ. ●