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Climate Smart Cities Challenge Challenge brief - Background document - Curitiba
Innovation Engineering / Escher Mill Decree No. 885/2017 creates the Engenho da Inovação (Innovation Mill), granting permission for the use of the municipal structure itself by Curitiba Development Agency and the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba, establishing that the Mill will function as an environment for the development of the innovation ecosystem, which will be able to encompass the dissemination of technologies, subject to legal requirements. Municipal Innovation Law Law No. 15,324/2018 seeks to strengthen innovation as a pathway of the city’s transformation by providing incentives for the productive sector environment. The aim is to develop the municipality’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, and a Municipal Science, Technology and Innovation Council. The law benefits a set of productive sectors that include the entrepreneurship ecosystem, arrangements that promote innovation, business incubators, scientific institutions, independent inventors, technology centres, and startups. The law also authorizes the municipality to make use of instruments to encourage innovation, such as economic subsidy, financing, technological bonuses, tax incentives and the use of investment and participation funds. The law also provides for the creation of the Municipal Innovation Fund for projects aimed at building the city’s innovation ecosystem and the creation of the Municipal Science, Technology and Innovation Council. Vale do Pinhão Innovation Fund Article 2 of Paraná’s Innovation Law No. 15,324/18, provides for the menopause creation of a Municipal Innovation Fund to foster development of Curitiba’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. When established, the fund is to support financing instruments to encourage the construction of specialized and cooperative innovation environments and to its own innovation in companies. With the publication of Law No. 15.536/19, the Vale do Pinhão Innovation Fund, - INOVA VP, was established. This is public fund for projects that include in their activities research and development of innovative solutions to the daily challenges city residents face. The Curitiba Development Agency, pursuant to the caput of article 3d, is responsible for technical management of the fund that will be constituted as a Budget Unit of the Municipal Secretariat of Finance. Also, the Management Committee appointed by decree is responsible for defining public policies for the investment of resources.
