About us

The UFRJ Science Park is an environment of innovation within the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which aims to promote interaction between the university – students and technical-academic staff – and companies. Our mission is to generate connections that enhance the transformation of knowledge into innovation, strengthening UFRJ and contributing to the sustainable development of society.

Inaugurated in 2003, the Park houses research centers for large national and multinational companies, as well as small and medium-sized startups, spaces for the development of entrepreneurship and integration and UFRJ laboratories.

The UFRJ Science Park is part of one of the largest innovation ecosystems in Brazil and seeks within the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro the necessary skills to develop and overcome technological challenges for companies. Our environment has innovative companies of different sizes, access to more than 1,400 UFRJ laboratories, intellectual property management, relationship with universities and research centers, spaces for coexistence, contact with investors and access to international networks.

In recent years, the UFRJ Science Park has been investing heavily in two work fronts: attracting new companies from the most varied sectors of the economy and spreading their activities beyond physical borders, through partnerships with other innovation environments, digital platform and the launch of the Associates Program, which allows companies to associate with the Park, without the need for physical installation.

In 2021, the Park inaugurated the Inovateca, a space dedicated to physical and virtual connections, to share content, experiment with activities for the development and support of projects that inspire innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives at the most different levels of maturity. A place where the academic environment and private sector institutions meet through the most diverse activities and interactions.

Elected as the best Brazilian Science Park in 2013 by the Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Business Incubators (Associação Nacional de Entidades Promotoras de Empreendimentos Inovadores – Anprotec), the UFRJ Science Park has a team specialized in promoting the interaction between its companies and the start ups of the Coppe/UFRJ Business Incubator with the university units/research groups, thus, facilitating the establishment of partnerships capable of promoting innovation.

The Park also follows-up the management of the small and medium-sized companies installed in the Park and carries out activities to encourage the relationship between the resident organizations and other interested public. We also aim at helping expand the companies networking and foster entrepreneurship through business management activities and fundraising. In 2017, the Park started the Crowd Rio program, which consists in the acceleration of innovative enterprises in a partnership with Telefonica Open Future. A total of 9 startups participated in the first group of the program.

The Park has also a coworking space, areas for events and places for students’ and professors’ entrepreneurial projects. The Park is currently home to the Hub Institute – a networked Laboratory for UFRJ experimental projects. More than just providing physical structure, the Park supports the Hub and other entrepreneurship-oriented activities through management activities and integration with the interested public. During the past years, the UFRJ Science Park has been strongly investing in two work fronts: attracting new companies from different economic sectors and expanding its activities beyond its physical borders. To this end, the Park has been establishing partnerships with other national and international innovation environments. Among them, are the partnership with other national and international innovation environments, such as the Scientific and Technological Park of the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Tecnopuc) and the Digital Port (Porto Digital), in Recife (PE), for the exchange of resident organizations and the partnership with TusPark (Tsinghua University Science Park) of the University of Tsinghua, China, which will allow the Park to have a permanent physical base in that country.

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