Rodrigo Quites, Guamá Science & Technological Park (PCT) "Innovation (and Collaboration) Environments for the Sustainable Development of the Amazon: the case of STP Guamá"

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How to transform leadership in Science into leadership in
innovation and entreperneuship

2. AGENDA
• SciTech Parks
• STP Guamá
• Residents
• Infrastructure and services for residents
• Digital solutions developed in the Park
• STP Guamá Map
• Challenges for the current timeframe
• Contact Info
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3. GUAMÁ FOUNDATION
MANAGEMENT BOARD
2019 to 2021
RODRIGO QUITES REIS
President
Full Professor of UFPA – Faculty of Computer Science. B.Sc. In
Computer Science (UFPA), M.Sc. (Federal University of Rio Grande
do Sul), D.Sc. (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) – sandwich
stage in the Universität Stuttgart (Germany).
Currently, on temporally leave of absence from the UFPA.
Consultant for Process Management and Improvement, Software
Architecture Design, and Innovation Management.
Head of the Software Engineering Lab @ UFPA (LABES-UFPA) – a
R&D facility that was responsible to carry out more 20 projects
funded by private companies and and public sector. 3

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INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENTS
Incubators
Corworking
spaces
Acelleration
centers
Science and
Technology
Parks

5. SciTech Parks
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• Originally proposed by Stanford University in the
1950s in order to achieve economic development by
the integration of academic and production worlds
• Promotes research and innovation through the
integration of the university, private institutions and
the government
• Today: more than 100 SciTech Parks in Brazil
• Triple Helix model of development (Etzkowitz)
• Wide variety of arrangements: integration to
Incubators, Acceleration centers, Universities,
R&D centers, Industry, Commerce, and Local
government.

6. What is Guamá STP?
• Innovation environment created in 2010 as a result of the
cooperation of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), State
Government of Pará, and the Federal Rural University of Pará
(UFRA)
• Named after the Guamá river
• The first and only Science & Technology Park in the Amazon
• Positive: opportunity to growth
• Challenging facts:
• (ack of understanding of its role by the local society
• Limited experience of the institutions in the relation to
the market
• Managed by the Guamá Foundation
• Non-profit private foundation partially funded by the State
Government of Pará 6

7. Brief history of the Guamá STP
• 2009: Original plan of three STPs in Pará: Guamá (Belém),
Tapajós (Santarém) and Tocantins (Marabá) STP
• 2010: Agreement between UFPA and State Government
• 75,000 m2 unused territory between UFPA and UFRA
• 2011: UFRA joined the agreement
• 2011: The Amazonian HQ of INPE (National Institute for Space
Research) established in the Guamá STP
• 2011: CEAMAZON (Energy Efficiency Center) established in the
Guamá STP
• 2017: Innovation Space (1st multi-user building)
• 2018: Entrepreneur Space (2nd multi-user building) 7

8. Services provided by Guamá Foundation
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Technical program for Entrepreneurship
Support for the R&D Laboratories reach the market (reduced
bureaucracy compared to the existing regulations for Universities
and SciTech institutions)
Structured “plug and play” rooms
24 hour x 7 day Security and safety facilities
24 x 7 access to the infrastructure
High speed internet access
FINEP bureau (Government Federal funding agency)
Bureau for the Brazilian Exporting Program - PEIEX

9. Characterization of the Guamá STP
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• Integration of two worlds (Residents):
• 15 Laboratories / Research Centers
• State funded
• Focus on Energy, Biotechnology, Mining, Information
Technology, and Agriculture
• +50 Small and medium sized companies
• Wide variety of fields:
• Food products (e.g., kosher line of Amazonian foods,
cachaça, farofa, and “gourmet” pet food)
• Civil engineering and construction technology
• Agriculture improvement services
• Cosmetic and Jewelry design
• Biotechnology
• Software factories
• …

10. Laboratories
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- 10 Innovation Space Labs
• Agrifood Valorization Center of Amazonian Bioactive Compounds -
CVACBA/UFPA
• Cocoa Laboratory
• Amazon Oil Laboratory – LOA/UFPA
• Biologic Engineering Laboratory - ENGBIO/UFPA
• Milk Quality Laboratory in Northern Brazil (MILK DERIVATES) - LQL/UFPA
• Center of Research and Development in Telecommunications, Automation
and Electronics - LASSE/UFPA
• Laboratory of Instrumentation for Agroindustry Products -
AGROIND/EMBRAPA
• Laboratory of Agricultural Health - SANAGRO/EMBRAPA
• Environment Control Laboratory – UFPA
• Plant Health Laboratory - EMBRAPA

11. Laboratories
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- 6 Laboratories located in STP lots
•Advanced Studies Center for Biodiversity - CEABIO/UFPA
•High and Extra-High Voltage Laboratory - LEAT/UFPA
•Laboratory of Rail Transport Infrastructure of the Amazon –
AMAZONFERR/UFPA
•Milk Quality Laboratory in Northern Brazil (RAW MILK) -
LQL/UFPA
•Amazon Energy Efficiency and Excellence Center –
CEAMAZON/UFPA
•National Institute for Space Research - INPE

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Pet food
2%
Biodiversity
2%
Energy
2%
Fintech
2%
Animal health
2%
Drinking products
3%
Jelwelry design
3%
Geolocation
3%
Automation and Equipment
5%
Biotech
5%
Digital Promotion and
Marketing
5%
Civil engineering
11%
Services
15%
Food
16%
Software companies
24%
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DISTRIBUTION OF RESIDENT COMPANIES – STP GUAMÁ

13. Digital Solutions developed in the Park
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• IoT solutions for the Amazon
• Amazon Hydroview project
• Partnership of LASSE and Embrapa
• Open source software and hardware to provide real time
monitoring of the need of irrigation for land crops of Açaí.

14. Digital Solutions developed in the Park
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• Celcom project
• OpenCellular for Brazilian Amazon Communities
• Open source hardware and software to provide cellular
communication in remote villages
• 2G internet access
• Unlicensed spectrum band for GSM
devices

15. Digital Solutions developed in the Park
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16. Inteceleri – Resident company
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Matematicando: a mobile game to assist
Math learning

17. Inteceleri – Resident company
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Miriti board for low-cost VR education solutions
Do-it-yourself designs available for download.

18. MDI – Resident company
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VR solutions for training of industrial settings

19. • Monitoring of civil engineering projects for homes and small companies

20. Laboratories
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“Ubá” in the Tupi
indigenous language
means “canoe”

21. State Technical High School
Dr. Celso Malcher
Major areas:
- Computer Programming
- Urban Safety and Security Techniques

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23. Challenges for the current timeframe
(2019-2021)
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• Financial independency from the Government
• Improve the internal network of collaboration
• Improve the residents’ competitiveness
• Start to consolidate the Guamá Park identification and
mission for the society
• Establish local/regional/international partnerships to
• Improve the Park visibility
• Foster business integration

24. CONTACT INFO
Rodrigo Quites Reis
E-mail: dip@fundacaoguama.org.br
http://www.pctguama.org.br
Instagram: @pctguama
Facebook: pctguama
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