Guamá Science and Technology Park joins IASP

IASP is pleased to welcome the Guamá Science and Technology Park from Brazil as a new member of our association.

The Guamá Science and Technology Park (Guamá STP) is the first technology park to operate in Brazil’s Amazon region, and has a mission to encourage applied research, innovative entrepreneurship, service provision and technology transfer.

The resources invested in the building and development of the STP are from the Pará State Government through the Science, Technology and Technical and Technologic Education Secretary (Sectet) in partnership with the Bank for Economic and Social Development. In line with the market needs of Pará State, the park’s focus areas are Biotechnology; Information and Communication Technology (ICT); Energy; Environmental Technology and Mineral Technology.

Services offered to resident companies include the iConnect network, that brings together independent professionals, research and development laboratories and the industrial sector; exportation training programme PEIEX that increases the international competitiveness of Brazilian companies, and services in innovation management, business planning, search and fundraising, competitive intelligence and support to technology transfer.

In addition to a business incubator to support new tech companies, Guamá STP offers a co-working space and six advanced research and development laboratories: the Center for the Valorization of Bioactive Compounds of the Amazon; the Laboratory of Biological Engineering; the Laboratory of Vegetable Oils and Derivatives; Sensors and Embedded Systems Laboratory; the Reference Laboratory in Phitosanity and Handling; and the Laboratory for Instrumentation of Agroindustrial Products (Agroind).

To learn more about them, visit http://www.pctguama.org.br