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The macro goals for the country as regards the National Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy (Encti) marked the debates during the 1st Innovation and Competitiveness Meeting, held by the IBP last Thursday, March 3, in Rio de Janeiro, with the presence of Savio Raeder technical advisor with the Secretariat of Research and Development Policies and Programs of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
During the event, Raeder talked about the need to increase the number of professional engineers and scientists, thus contributing to the qualification of our workforce in the CT&I sector. “In Brazil there are about 700 professionals per million inhabitants, whereas in the leading countries the number is 3000”, he said.
As far as Strategy goes, he explained that Encti’s idea is to structure a planning cycle with specific sector plan for several areas of the industry in the country, including the oil & gas sector. “After completion of the Strategy in April, we will put these sectoral plans into practice, which are the results of the theory”, Raeder said, also pointing out that, according to MCTI data, the time frame required for Brazil to reach 2% of the investment in Research and Development (R&D), whereas the overall average growth rate is 34 years.

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IBP’s Executive Manager for Knowledge Management, Raimar van den Bylaardt, showed his concern for the weakening of the Oil Sector Fund, called CT-Petro, and the Brazilian National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FNDCT). “We are putting together a strategy for which we need to have resources available. In 2015, the FNDCT failed to receive royalties accounting for BRL 1 bi. According to the MCTI, the CT-Petro will receive only about BRL 230,000 this year, to fund R&G sector projects”, he said.