The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Paulo Alvim, defended today (7) the startups as important generators of innovation in Brazil. According to Alvin, the startups are capable of generating value from the territory, guaranteeing productivity and sustainability. The minister participated, this Friday (7), in the closing of Rio Scientific Entrepreneurship (Rise) 2022, in free translation, Rio Empreendedorismo Científico. 
“This is the big difference we have, the Brazilian territory. It’s looking at the territory, looking at the potential to add value with a lot of scientific and technological knowledge, where everything has to be done, from the base of the biome to transforming it into an invoice. And that who will do is the startup”, said Alvin.
startups, as the term suggests in English, are emerging companies that work in innovation applied to products, services or business models. According to Alvim, the technology allows the country to add value to production. “[A tecnologia] It’s not to modernize or increase productivity, it’s to ensure that what I’m producing has a standard of productivity and sustainability.”
Rise 2022 aims to bring together entities and entrepreneurs in the area of scientific and technological innovation in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The event started on Thursday (6th) and featured lectures, debate circles and exhibition of startups, among other activities. Rise is a free, face-to-face event organized by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, the National Agricultural Society (SNA), the Sollytch company and the Intermunicipal Development Consortium of the East. Fluminense.
“Innovation, nowadays, in Brazil, is coming practically all from startups, mainly in agriculture. The agro currently has more than 2 thousand startups. All of them looking for innovation”, said SNA president Antonio Alvarenga. “They bring innovation in technology, they are in all areas”, he emphasized.
At the end of the event, Minister Paulo Alvim presented the award for best startup exhibitor and best pitch, which is a brief and straightforward presentation of the project. THE startup winner of the best exhibitor category was IMBR Agrowhich seeks to democratize the analysis of rural risk, offering indices and assessments of agrometeorological and commercialization risks.
The winner of pitch went to polimex, startup which develops new bioplastic materials aimed at the circular economy, produced from typically Brazilian agricultural inputs and agro-industrial waste.
