Microsoft inaugurated on May 31, in Campinas (SP), the new Microsoft Innovation Center, the company's innovation center developed in partnership with the Eldorado Institute. The opening of the space, the first MIC in the state of São Paulo, is part of the Institute's 18th anniversary celebrations, which will have an expansion of the technological infrastructure and initiatives to accelerate startups.
MICs are local diffusers of innovative technologies that support and foster the developer, industrial and startup ecosystem, accelerating the use of new technologies and increasing the sector's competitiveness on the international stage. In addition, they contribute to entrepreneurship, as they are meeting points between companies, academia, entrepreneurs and developers of new technologies in general.
According to Microsoft's Director of Innovation, Alessandro Jannuzzi, the inauguration is the result of a successful partnership between the company and the Eldorado Institute. He points out that the space will serve as a stimulus for the creation of innovative ideas. “Supporting education and stimulating entrepreneurship are among our priorities, because we believe that both are the foundations for the country's development”, comments Jannuzzi.
“For Eldorado, being a Microsoft Innovation Center is of special importance in promoting access to cutting-edge technology, generating applied innovation from the beginning of a young person’s career at a university to their journey towards entrepreneurship and professional success”, he says. Jaylton Ferreira, superintendent of the Eldorado Institute.
18 years of Instituto Eldorado
To celebrate 18 years of activity, the Eldorado Institute will inaugurate four new areas: Espaço Startups, with a new concept of “technological acceleration” for start-ups, in partnership with the accelerator Baita; the Imaging Lab, which has the most complete infrastructure dedicated to R&D in digital images for cell phone cameras in the Southern Hemisphere, in partnership with Motorola; the headquarters of the only Microsoft Innovation Center in the State of São Paulo; in addition to the Experience environment, which shows all the know-how and innovative technologies of the Institute.
The Instituto Eldorado headquarters in Campinas is located within Unicamp, a leading public university in patents and in the number of articles per capita published annually in journals indexed in the ISI/WoS database, in addition to being responsible for 8% of academic research in Brazil.
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