IPD - Instituto de Promoção do Desenvolvimento

  Mission: Articulating and coordinating intellectual competences in people, universities, colleges, research centers, class associations, and social organizations, aiming at finding proposals and solutions to achieve higher competitiveness in businesses and improved quality of life for citizens and the general society with efficiency, creative effectiveness, cooperation and competitiveness. Paraná’s Innovation Bill: The Doctors for Development Academy of Paraná is developing

The Pedra Branca new city-neighborhood project, located in the municipality of Palhoça, in Florianópolis, was the case studied during the workshop “Green Building Concept Methodology” (Second Part), promoted by the Development Promotion Institute (IPD), in partnership with Unindus and the Sustentax Group, with the participation of American architect and green building specialist, Huston Eubank. In the audience, representatives from the whole civil construction production chain,

Registration for the contest on work related to the Millennium Development Goals is open. The contest was created by the Teaching Institutions Center of the Entrepreneurial Citizenship Council of Paraná, and the Federation of the Industries of the State of Paraná, with the support of the “Nós Podemos Paraná” movement. The main purpose is to motivate the academic and business communities to publicize work related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Curitiba will host the First Innovative Cities International Conference, from March 11 to 14, 2010. The event will be held at Cietep. An initiative of the Fiep System, it also involves the City of Curitiba, the Association of Municipalities in Curitiba’s Metropolitan Area (Assomec), the Fecomercio System, Sebrae, Copel, UFPR,  UTFPR, PUCPR, Oi, Brasil Telecom, and Petrobras. The idea is to create and set up a favorable environment for developing an innovation culture in

The challenge of sustainability necessarily involves innovation and management improvement. This is a quotation from the speech by the president of the Federation of Industries of the State of Paraná (Fiep), Rodrigo da Rocha Loures, who presided the opening session of the Global Forum Business as an Agent of World Benefit (BAWB) on Monday, (9/14), representing the president of the National Confederation of the Industry (CNI), Armando Monteiro Neto. According to Rocha Loures,

IPD is formalizing a partnership with the City of Ortigueira to develop fish farming projects. The idea is to procure funds for the manufacturing of fish skin clothes and accessories. Another partnership under study is that with SER Sustentável. IPD is going to obtain funds for a demo project at Paraná’s southeastern region where bamboo pellets will be produced and exported as a source of renewable energy. IPD is also developing a project that will be

Editora Gente publishes book that shows how to educate and innovate in all of sustainability’s aspects. The socioeconomic changes of the past 20 years have deeply affected the behavior of companies, in various industries, which were up to now used to maximizing profits only. The idea of social responsibility incorporated in business is therefore relatively new. With the emergence of new demands and more pressure for transparency in business, organizations are now pressured to act more responsibly

According to Raymond Bonin, Brazil needs to improve the way in-natura products are marketed in order to gain new markets abroad. The French fruits & vegetables distribution specialist, Raymond Bonin, visited Brazil last June to learn more about the Brazilian in-natura market. Bonin is part of a  group of more than 3 thousand French senior specialists (Ecti), and he came on a consulting mission promoted by the Development Promotion Institute (IPD) that which develops sustainability projects in our