Box 7 - Activities of the Ministry of Science and Technology,
1993.
a) permanent activities carried on by
MCT or with its support:
- large projects involving investments in basic infrastructure;
- research projects in the basic, natural and social sciences;
- technology development projects in the fields of biotechnology, with
emphasis on genetic engineering and its applications; in new materials,
including microelectronics; in chemistry, including the synthesis of
natural products, all with strong impact in the modernization of the
productive system.
b) regional programs, like the weather and climate forecast projects for the Northeast
and the Center-South regions;
c) the definition of new legal and financial
instruments for the S&T sector:
- incentives for industrial investment in R&D
- rules for the implementation of the Informatics and the Amazon Free
Zone legislations;
- utilization of resources derived from the privatization program for
strategic projects such as the Satellite Launching Vehicle, the supercomputer
of the National Laboratory of Computer Sciences, the National Laboratory
of Sences, the National Laboratory
of Synchrotron Light, the National Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, the
research program in the Antarctic region and the survey of natural resources
in Brazil's continental shelf.
- creation of the National Commission for Industrial Technological
Qualification;
- establishment of the Program for software production for the international
market;
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- writing and follow up of new legislation for the S&T sector:
for patents, software, vegetal diversity, topography and integrated
circuits, trade of sensitive technologies, and the creation of Brazil's
space agency.
José Israel Vargas, 1993
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