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Overview

A little about NIT Rio

NIT Rio is an arrangement of the Technological Innovation Centers of eight Research Units in the state of Rio de Janeiro – CBPF, CETEM, IBICT, IMPA, INT, LNCC, MAST and ON – linked to the Department of Affiliated Units, within the Undersecretariat of Research Units and Social Organizations (SPEO/SEXEC) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI).

Founded in 2007 at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF), NIT Rio has already managed more than two hundred intellectual property applications registered with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and has more than three hundred inventors registered in our systems.

Responsibilities

Our role is to act across the entire technological innovation chain, carrying out activities related to intellectual property management, negotiating partnerships with the productive sector and technology transfer. Our efforts aim to identify technologies from the associated Research Units, encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation. We seek to foster interactions between public and private sector entities and the Research Units associated with NIT Rio, bringing solutions to the most diverse challenges and improvements to society as a whole.

Duties

In accordance with MCTIC Ordinance No. 5,276 of 10/15/2018, which establishes the arrangements of Technological Innovation Centers in Brazil and their member Research Units and Social Organizations, NIT Rio operates across the entire technological innovation chain, applying the federal legislation on innovation as well as the regulations of MCTI and of the Research Units in the Arrangement, and is responsible for the following duties (Art. 16 of Law No. 10,973/2004 and Art. 12 of the annex to MCTI Ordinance No. 251/2014):

  1. 1Ensure the maintenance of the institutional policy encouraging the protection of creations, licensing, innovation and other forms of technology transfer;
  2. 2Periodically evaluate and classify the applicability of results with potential to drive Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I) activities in technological innovation projects;
  3. 3Evaluate the merit of requests from independent inventors for the adoption of a creation, under specific regulations;
  4. 4Analyze patentability requirements and advise on the merit of protecting creations developed at Science and Technology Institutions (ICTs) or in partnership with the productive sector;
  5. 5Advise on the merit of disclosing creations developed at the ICTs or in partnership with the productive sector that are eligible for intellectual protection;
  6. 6Monitor and oversee the processing of applications and the maintenance of intellectual property titles of the ICTs, including those co-owned with partners;
  7. 7Carry out technology scouting studies in the field of intellectual property to guide the innovation actions of the ICTs;
  8. 8Develop studies and strategies for transferring the innovation generated by the ICTs;
  9. 9Promote and monitor the relationship between the ICTs and companies in innovation activities;
  10. 10Assist in negotiations and promote technology transfer, licensing and commercialization actions, pursuing any and all initiatives with this purpose at the ICTs;
  11. 11Guide and support the ICTs of the NIT Rio Arrangement in defining criteria for assessing research costs and laboratory use, pricing technological services and valuing technologies;
  12. 12Create a database of the research, technologies and competencies of the associated ICTs.