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Porto Digital ended 2025 with 541 companies and 24,079 workers in Recife’s old port. Brazil’s tax reform phases out the 2 percent city rate. The post Porto Digital Built a Tech Hub on a Tax Break Brazil Is Phasing Out appeared first on The Rio Times.
A Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep) prorrogou até a próxima sexta-feira (25) o prazo para enviar projetos de inovação para a chamada pública Finep Mais Inovação Brasil – Rodada 2 – Mobilidade Sustentável. As propostas precisam ser de empresas brasileiras e contar com a parceria técnico-científica de, pelo menos, uma Instituição Científica, Tecnológica e de Inovação (ICT). Notícias relacionadas:Temporais provocam morte, desaparecimentos e atingem 119 cidades no RS.Morador de Pelotas mostra nas redes estragos causados por tempestade.Tempestade, ventos fortes e granizo deixam Região Sul em alerta.“Estamos prorrogando o prazo para as empresas e as ICTs somarem suas forças e apresentarem propostas inovadoras que possam transformar os modais de transporte e a indústria brasileira”, afirma Elias Ramos, Diretor de Inovação da Finep. Serão concedidos recursos não reembolsáveis de subvenção econômica para “projetos altamente inovadores e de risco tecnológico”. A chamada pública disponibilizará R$ 203,8 milhões em subvenções, reservando 30% dos recursos para projetos com atividades principais nas regiões Norte, Nordeste ou Centro-Oeste. Os projetos candidatos devem se alinhar obrigatoriamente a uma das quatro linhas temáticas definidas para o certame. Linha 1 - Mobilidade Aérea: aeronaves mais leves, descarbonização, novos combustíveis sustentáveis de aviação (SAF) e ecossistemas de mobilidade aérea avançada, como voo autônomo e vertiportos. Linha 2 - Mobilidade Aquaviária: tecnologias para transporte de cargas e passageiros de baixas emissões em projetos voltados ao lazer, a partir de propulsão elétrica e híbrida. Linha 3 - Mobilidade Metroferroviária: digitalização e sustentabilidade de ferrovias, como controle, segurança de vias e tração limpa. Linha 4 - Micromobilidade: mobilidade ativa de curta distância, como bicicletas e triciclos de baixa emissão de carbono para carga ou passageiros (excluindo lazer), sistemas de compartilhamento e melhorias na infraestrutura urbana. A partilha orçamentária destinará R$ 132,8 milhões para a Linha 1 (Mobilidade Aérea), R$ 37,7 milhões para a Linha 2 (Mobilidade Aquaviária) e R$ 33,3 milhões para as Linha 3 (Mobilidade Metroferroviária) e Linha 4 (Micromobilidade).
General Atlantic CEO Bill Ford says accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship have created one of the strongest environments for growth investing in his three decades in the business, with opportunities spanning the US, Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Ford tells David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend that geopolitical risks are reshaping global supply chains but not reversing globalization, while AI should continue creating investment opportunities despite periods of overvaluation and concerns about safety. At the 2026 Qatar Economic Forum, UNGA Special Edition; Powered by Bloomberg. (Source: Bloomberg)
Hyderabad has spent decades building the talent, infrastructure and business climate to compete with Bangalore, attracting major tech firms while becoming a hub for life sciences. But AI now threatens some of the lower-cost IT work that helped fuel its rise. The test is whether Hyderabad can use its talent base to move from supporting global innovation to creating more of its own. This version corrects a map of India. (Source: Bloomberg)
The 19-year-old is currently pursuing his third year of engineering at a private college; his technology focuses on applications in the areas of agriculture and disaster mitigation
Salvador, the capital of Bahia state, is promoting the reuse of residual palm oil from its iconic acarajé fritters — African-inspired, shrimp-filled dumplings made with peeled black-eyed peas and onions and served with sauce.
The ‘Seva First Innovation Challenge-Eastern Zone’ invites solution-oriented proposals on healthcare access, agricultural losses, water shortage and waste management
UNITES seeks to bring together scientists, academia, industry, government and young researchers to address emerging societal challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration
Sanctioned Chinese companies are increasingly turning to open-source research to innovate and reverse-engineer restricted foreign technology, with a 72 per cent surge in scientific literature citations in their patent applications, according to a new study. While the United States said it expanded its Entity List to safeguard national security and preserve its technological edge, an analysis of Chinese patent filings over the 12 years until 2022 showed that US restrictions on access to...
Around 100 start-ups selected to join Hong Kong’s flagship border tech hub will undergo mentorship programmes ranging from five to eight years, backed by industry heavyweights, the operator has revealed. Vincent Ma, CEO of Loop Hong Kong Park Company, said in an interview on Thursday that the start-ups were chosen to join the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP) following a months-long screening process. “We have chosen 100 start-ups to enter our park soon following a few...
Speaking at the inauguration of the SEMICON India 2026, Narendra Modi said that the semiconductor ecosystem is expanding rapidly, opening new opportunities for innovation, investment and growth
About 10 artificial intelligence (AI) and biotech companies will be the first to access cross-border data flows under a new pilot scheme, securing an early edge over roughly 100 other firms set up in Hong Kong’s flagship tech hub at the border. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu revealed on Wednesday during the final policy address of his term that more than 100 innovation and technology firms have moved into the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP), while a “white list” to...
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu presented the city’s first ever five-year plan, including steps to bolster innovation, birth rates and financial activity. The city aims to raise spending on innovation to 3 per cent of gross domestic product after 2030 from 1.63 per cent in 2024, Lee said as he announced the plan on Wednesday alongside the traditional annual policy address. There were also steps to accelerate construction of the tech-focused Northern Metropolis megaproject on the...
Students urged to focus on innovation, continuously upgrade their skills and strive for excellence at Engineers’ Day programme
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Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu’s coming policy address will introduce measures to remove hurdles for businesses setting up shop in the Northern Metropolis and include proactive initiatives to strengthen innovation hubs, research efforts and tech applications, the South China Morning Post has learned. Government sources said measures supporting the megaproject in the northern New Territories and backing innovation were expected to be major highlights of the chief executive’s policy address on...
Hong Kong will deepen ties with emerging economies worldwide, expanding connections with the Middle East and belt and road countries, from finance to innovation and technology, according to the finance chief. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also said the city aims to build “networked and institutionalised” connectivity with the Global South – a broad term for developing less-industrialised countries, primarily located in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Belt and road countries are nations...
Summit to focus on building a DeepTech ecosystem and boosting research, innovation, investment and employment in the State
In the third of our series of previews on the five-year plan and policy address, to be announced on September 16, Leopold Chen and Theodora Yu look at how the city can raise its game and expand the adoption of artificial intelligence. Read part one here and part two here. Spotting bags of construction waste illegally dumped near a temporary refuse collection point in Hong Kong’s Southern district last year, former lawmaker and resident Michael Tien Puk‑sun immediately dialled the government’s...
Rama Krishna Dasari urges students to identify real-world problems and develop practical solutions; V-TAPP-2026 features 92 events and nearly 7,000 entries
Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue 2026–Young Professionals Roundtable deliberates on how India’s cultural heritage, knowledge, diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, technology and youthful energy could strengthen the country’s global identity VIJAYAWADA
Huawei Technologies has unveiled a high-speed optical module designed to eliminate bottlenecks in artificial intelligence infrastructure, staking an early claim in the race to set standards for next-generation data centre connections. The Shenzhen-based tech giant showcased what it called the industry’s first 7.2-terabit-per-second (Tbps) near-packaged optics (NPO) product at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) in Shenzhen this week. The technology replaces traditional...
A cluster comprising Hong Kong and two mainland Chinese cities has been ranked the world’s top innovation hub for the second consecutive year by a United Nations body. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster retained its crown in the 2026 Global Innovation Index (GII) released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Tuesday. Tokyo-Yokohama, San Jose-San Francisco, Seoul and Beijing followed in the rankings. A government spokesman welcomed WIPO’s ranking, saying it reaffirmed...
Longsys Electronics Founder Cai Huabo says 78% of proceeds will go into research and development as the company shifts from a module house to a semiconductor memory brand. With expansion plans in Brazil, Europe, and the US, Longsys aims to break the industry’s price‑driven cycle and position itself at the forefront of AI‑era innovation. (Source: Bloomberg)
“We are also celebrating 2026 as the India-France Year of Innovation. This strategic partnership is particularly special because it rests on the solid foundation of our long-standing cultural and political ties,” he said.
Even as China installs new solar and wind power capacity faster than the rest of the world combined, it is setting new benchmarks for the technologies through innovation. This year alone, Chinese companies and researchers have generated the first electricity from high-altitude winds 4,000 metres above Earth, cleared the last hurdle to commercialising a cheaper and more efficient alternative to silicon solar panels, begun trials of the world’s most powerful floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind...