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The Amazon Biotechnology Center - CBA – was set as a part of PROBEM – the Brazilian Program of Molecular Ecology for the Sustainable Use of Amazon Biodiversity Resources.
PROBEM is an initiative of the scientific community from private sector, federal government and state governments, and is coordinated by three Ministries: Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC), Science and Technology (MCT) and of the Environment (MMA).
SUFRAMA - Superintendence of the Manaus Free-Trade Zone, is responsible for CBA's implementation and administration, and is the main sponsor – more than 70% of the financial contribution.
The Amazonas State government participates in the project through FAPEAM (State Foundation for Research and Support in Amazonas) in partnership with SUFRAMA.
CBA is a TECHNOLOGY CENTER which aims to promote technological innovation of both products of the Amazon biodiversity and its processes by which they are obtained and up-graded in value. This aim is achieved by:
- Establishing a network with Private and Public Universities and Research Institutes;
- Contributing with the implementation of a Bio-industrial Park (Science Park) in the Amazon region, improving the technology density of the industrial sector;
- Promoting and encouraging the establishment of technology based bio-business (offering strategic technological services) and innovation;
- Developing and diffusing new products and biotechnological processes, with value added along the whole production chain, so offering employment and income to the region.
CBA's mission is to foster technological innovation processes linked to local products, stimulating and creating the basic conditions to support the development of industrial activities based on sustainable exploration of Amazon biodiversity, at all levels of the productive supply chain.
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As a Technological Center, the main goal of CBA is to transform the knowledge generated by research institutes that already exist, into products with value added at all stages of production. The Center is already developing products and processes in partnership with educational and research institutes and with the private sector.
Other goals:
Contribute to regional development, generation of employment and income through biotechnological innovation.
Promote the knowledge of the Amazon's biodiversity, in association with the technology required for its economic use and so bring added income to the region.
Stimulate regional development of products, processes and biotechnology services in the sectors of human health, agribusiness and industry, aiming at its integration into regional, national and global marketing and productive chains.
Incubate, consolidate and project companies with a technological basis.
Stimulate the implementation in the Amazon region of bioindustrial parks constituted of companies and institutions with internationally recognized competence.
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- Link the infrastructure available in the country and abroad, establishing partnerships and deals with business, public and private institutions of education, research, metrology and certification, and of protection and dissemination of knowledge.
- Constantly promote the visibility of CBA in national and international events, and by fostering businesses and partnership between associated companies and institutions, attracting, by this way, investors to the region’s future Bioindustrial Park.
- Support companies and institutions that wish to invest in the use of native products from Amazonian biodiversity, offering them specialized technological and consultancy services.
- Link suppliers, clients and partners through contracts, partnership agreements, process licensing and other legal agreements which safeguard the parties’ legitimate interests concerning tax incentives, risks and profits, protecting trade secrets and upholding intellectual property rights.
- Support the Amazonian producing communities, teaching them to develop processes, produce, upgrade and commercialize products stemming from the use of biodiversity, as well as to stimulate sustainable extractivism, cultivation and innovation.
- To evaluate the potentiality of the Amazon biodiversity, identifying new molecules or improving the knowledge of those already identified, and to make possible the culture, plantation or sustainable extractivism of the natural resources that supply them.
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